Thanks to John Deckker
for this link.
Eric answers some interesting questions in this great
interview by Paul Ferris. — lt ed.
“What dangers do you feel the open source community
faces?”
“A lot of people are worried that all this mainstream success
will somehow damage us… I just don’t see it. Nobody can take the
sources away from us; we’ve got multiple lines of defense… As
long as no hypothetical bad guy can sequester our sources and shut
down our links, we’ll thrive…”
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