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PC World News: Torvalds: Where Linux Leads

Thanks to Low, Kuan Loong
for this link.

“Linux inventor talks about the upcoming 3.0 kernel, which
software he runs, and why Microsoft (eventually) will hop on the
bandwagon.”

“Over a Mexican food lunch, Torvalds talked with IDG News
Service about the open-source revolution.”

“There’s never really been a road map. In the sense that the
Linux user base has been changing fairly rapidly, making a
five-year plan just would not work. A year ago the main user for
this was still on a kind of technical workstation, a small-scale
Web server. And suddenly the enterprise-like large-scale computing
came … So we’re moving on to doing better and better things and
it’s not really planned. It’s more of a reaction to what people
need.”

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