ZDNET UK: Eric Raymond: Of open source and the devil | Linux Today

ZDNET UK: Eric Raymond: Of open source and the devil

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Aug 17, 1999

“Eric Raymond describes himself as an anthropologist of the
hacker community and effectively acts as its marketing
co-ordinator: It was Raymond who led the ‘rebranding’ exercise to
describe free software as ‘open source’. ZDNN’s Andrew Orlowski
caught up with him at the LinuxWorld show in California last week
week.”

[ Questions from Part I: ]

“ZDNN: At a press conference on Tuesday with Linux you mentioned
that less mud gets thrown at Linux now. Redmond is pretty quiet
these days…”

“ZDNN: In his LinuxWorld keynote, Linus Torvalds said the server
and embedded spaces were the key priorities for Linux. So does the
media’s own focus on the desktop, or on Microsoft as a competitor,
bother you?”

“ZDNN: But doesn’t it build up public expectations in a certain
direction?”

“ZDNN: Wouldn’t you want to take over the desktop?”

“ZDNN: So when will you consider that you’ve ‘won’?”

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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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