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ABC News: Linus Torvalds and Bob Young Answer Your Questions

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Nov 17, 1999

No one knows more about the Linux operating system than its
creator, Linus Torvalds
, and the founder of the largest Linux
company, Bob Young of Red Hat. So I tracked them down at Comdex and
asked them to answer your questions for you.”

“Q U E S T I O N: How are you planning to prevent the “Big Guys”
(IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Compaq/DEC, Sun) from adding their own
features to Linux and causing incompatibilities among different
vendors’ products?”

“A N S W E R: “I really don’t think there’s a problem there,”
says Linux creator Torvalds. “A lot of these so-called big guys in
particular have been burned by operating systems in the past. Just
look at what happen to (IBM’s) OS/2. Nobody wants to touch
operating systems. Everybody is so damned happy that somebody else
is doing it!”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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