Interviews

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Open Source -- Then and Now

"Few have been closer to the day-to-day processes involved in open sourcing the Java Platform, Standard Edition (Java SE) than Ray Gans, a manager at Sun Microsystems with a long history of…

Interview with Linus Torvalds

Italian Open Source blog oneOpenSource sat down with Linus Torvalds for an interview. Linked is an English translation.

Interview with Linus Torvalds.

Open Source Semantic Desktop Is Coming

Internetnews.com's Sean Michael Kerner interviewed Mandriva's Stéphane Laurière and Sebastian Trüg about the semantic desktop technology NEPOMUK. Topics include its integration into the upcoming…

Interview with Sebastian Kügler of KDE

"If you ever want a glimpse of how much Sebastian Kügler does around KDE just subscribe to the kde-promo e-mail list which is as busy as it is effective, and that is just one of the many tasks…

Interview with FSFE President Georg Greve

Sean Daly had the opportunity to meet up in Brussles with George Greve, President of the Free Software Foundation Europe, on July 2nd, and naturally he wanted to ask him about GPLv3. He also got…

MySQL CEO Mårten Mickos: What Open Source Is Really All About

"I am very passionate about open source. And I do believe that it is a superior method. But at the same time, I must be pragmatic. So when they say being dogmatic is very important for the Free…

Steve Wozniak: Open Source good, DRM dying

"Steve Wozniak just weighed in on DRM, saying "it doesn't make much sense if these things are going to have DRM forever." In this great new interview, he complains that even now, only six songs on…

The Open Source CEO: Dries Buytaert, Drupal

In this tenth installment of the Open Source CEO Series, I shifted gears again to talk with someone that has chosen not to carry the CEO title, despite ample opportunity to claim it. (I know a…

Interview With Fred Miller - GNU/Linux Evangelist

Fred Miller is a prolific GNU/Linux evangelist and active member of the OpenSUSE community. He has converted numerous small businesses and individuals from Windows to GNU/Linux. LXer has the…

Google Keeps Close Eye on Open Source

Chris DiBona, open-source programs manager at Google, gave a talk called "A Year of Open Source at Google" for the Google New York speaker series. Prior to his talk, which was closed to press,…