> > be on National Public Radio's Fresh Air program tomorrow. I guess it's > > broadcast from 8-9 PM here in Minnesota. > > So did anyone else catch this? It was fun, but I thought Linus came off a > little flat sometimes, esp. when describing what Linux (or any OS) does. I caught it on my way up from the airport after returning from Japan. Interestingly, Linus was in Tokyo at about the same time I was, according to a local (English) paper there, to promote the Japanese translation of the book. I was a little disappointed with Terry Gross's questions; she was clearly out of her element. If you want a comparison you should hear her interviews with musicians, which are usually fabulous. She didn't really know how to identify with Linux, except in terms of the $ and the GPL. Linus coulda definitely been less flat. He showed the typical (but not every!) geek's difficulty in identifying just how little people understand about the whole topic, and so IMO didn't make the best of a few opportunities (during the conversation) for some really nice illustrations. But then, I've heard RMS (and others) make the same mistake. That's what I found wrong with it. Doesn't mean I think it was a bad program, or a bad Linus interview -- overall a positive thing that it was a topic. The point he made most well was how the GPL development environment directs a very different, evolutionary process for "production". So who's read Linus' book? Andy