“Asay: After generating several billion dollars
in value in two different satellite company IPOs in Japan in the
early 1990s, you turned to energies to building a Linux company.
Why?“Suzuki: Satellites and entertainment are
certainly big business and continue to grow. Those were early days
in the Japanese satellite industry, and it was exciting to be
involved.“But, ultimately, I believe the opportunity for Linux expanding
into a wide range of devices, including, of course, entertainment
devices like set-top boxes, cell phones, and other mobile devices,
radically dwarfs the opportunity for broadcast
entertainment…”