“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’?”