Who do you want us to interview?

Gomer_X · Post by **Gomer_X** » Thu Nov 10, 2005 11:09 am

Patrick wrote:I went out there and it was all dried out. I should took the picture right away. It was a mutant. This past October was one of the wettest on record for PA. There were so many mushrooms sprouting all over the place! I'm sure Ohio was the same as you're right next to us.

We did indeed see some fungal strangeness. There's so much moss in my yard I hardly have any grass left.

Tsuroerusu · Post by **Tsuroerusu** » Thu Nov 10, 2005 11:18 am

Gomer_X wrote:
Tsuroerusu wrote:It's pretty ironic that Richard Stallman could find time to come on and Linus can't, pretty weird when you think about both people's contributions to the community:

Richard Stallman: The GPL, Emacs, GNOME...
Linus Torvalds: The Linux kernel.
I think Linus has a job.
I'm also pretty sure RMS didn't contribute to Gnome, although it's a GNU project. He wrote the original GCC, though, which is pretty important.

Still writing a C compiler is an enormous task, and I really respect RMS for actually taking this philosophy out into reality instead of just saying, oh well I can't change anything anyway.

Even thought Linus has a job, I do think he has 40 mins., or Pat could do a prerecorded interview, to be on the show, he's been all over the place in the past

Gomer_X · Post by **Gomer_X** » Thu Nov 10, 2005 11:41 am

Tsuroerusu wrote: Even thought Linus has a job, I do think he has 40 mins., or Pat could do a prerecorded interview, to be on the show, he's been all over the place in the past

I think the difference between RMS and Linus is that RMS is an evangelist for a philosophy, whereas Linus is a programmer. Linus has no agenda except to oversee the kernel. RMS's job is to promote free software, therefore he spends a lot of time talking to people.

Tsuroerusu · Post by **Tsuroerusu** » Thu Nov 10, 2005 11:46 am

Gomer_X wrote:
Tsuroerusu wrote: Even thought Linus has a job, I do think he has 40 mins., or Pat could do a prerecorded interview, to be on the show, he's been all over the place in the past
I think the difference between RMS and Linus is that RMS is an evangelist for a philosophy, whereas Linus is a programmer. Linus has no agenda except to oversee the kernel. RMS's job is to promote free software, therefore he spends a lot of time talking to people.

RMS still maintains Emacs as far as I know, but anyway, Linus has already been interviewed up the ass, I don't think there is a question that he hasn't been asked

treehead · Post by **treehead** » Thu Nov 10, 2005 3:53 pm

Tsuroerusu wrote:<snip>...Linus has already been interviewed up the ass, I don't think there is a question that he hasn't been asked

;so linus, boxers or briefs?

treehead · Post by **treehead** » Thu Nov 10, 2005 4:08 pm

;here's my short blue-sky list:

;web design

jeffrey zeldman
joshua davis

;hackers

tsutomu shimomura, the guy who tracked down mitnick
bram moolenaar, the lead developer of vim
john carmack, programmer and founder of idsoftware, the makers of doom, quake, et al
bram cohen, creator of bittorrent
frank miller, voip developer
if not linus, a linux kernel developer perhaps?

;crackers

eric corley, aka emmanuel goldstein, the editor-in-chief of 2600 magazine
jon johansen, reverse engineer and author of decss
kevin mitnick, ph.d. in social engineering
mark abene, aka "phiber optik"
john draper, aka "cap 'n crunch"

;authors/technical writers

matt welsh, harvard asst. professor and author of running linux (fifth edition due out next month--december 2005)
matthew gast, writer of 802.11 wireless networks, the definitive guide, t1, a survival guide, and some articles on mythtv
eric pement, writer of the sed FAQ

;miscellaneous

bruce perens, open source advocate & founder of busybox.
dean haglund, actor (most noteably as langly on the x-files, and founder of company "geek chic" and inventor of "chillpak

;most of those are not strictly linux people, but it is the *tech* show, right?

;what about interviewing each other... like a "spotlight on pat" night or an "evening with alan"? might help new listeners get more acquainted with each of you... and older listeners learn new things. just a thought. hey--at least you wouldn't have to worry about skype or asterisk!

;treehead

Tsuroerusu · Post by **Tsuroerusu** » Sat Nov 12, 2005 9:45 am

Just to add another one to the list:

Chris DiBona, Open source program manager at Google Inc.

jrtcs · Post by **jrtcs** » Mon Nov 14, 2005 2:04 pm

How about Wil Wheaton? He needs help getting his blog back up anyway.

treehead · Post by **treehead** » Tue Nov 15, 2005 10:47 am

jrtcs wrote:How about Wil Wheaton? He needs help getting his blog back up anyway.

;i second that.

;i'd also like to add a suggestion for robert and barbara thompson, authors of pc hardware in a nutshell, amongst others.

;treehead

Chess · Post by **Chess** » Thu Nov 17, 2005 2:24 pm

Hey guys - been listening to the show for a couple of months now and I love it!

I like the suggestions above. Here are some more:

Havoc Pennington (GNOME guy)
Matt Mullenweg (WordPress developer - not Linux specific, but F/OSS)
Another vote for Pat V (I know you have contacted him, but in case he checks this forum...

)
Eric Meyer (web design)
Ryan Gordon (Linux/Mac game porter & developer)

Tsuroerusu · Post by **Tsuroerusu** » Mon Nov 28, 2005 3:02 pm

In light of the recent events and annoucements I'd like to suggest Michael Steil the founder of the Xbox-Linux project and one of the guys at the new Free60 project which aims to port Linux to the Xbox 360, after crack Microsoft's protection systems of course.

Post by **Patrick** » Tue Nov 29, 2005 10:01 am

Tsuroerusu wrote:Just to add another one to the list:

Chris DiBona, Open source program manager at Google Inc.

I've talked to Chris already. He says he's extremely busy right now at Google and to get back to him in a couple months. I'll contact him again after the new year.

I've also sent emails to Bruce Perens, Kevin Mitnick, DVDJon, Judd Vinet and Patrick Volkerding.

Tsuroerusu · Post by **Tsuroerusu** » Tue Nov 29, 2005 10:05 am

Patrick wrote:
Tsuroerusu wrote:Just to add another one to the list:

Chris DiBona, Open source program manager at Google Inc.
I've talked to Chris already. He says he's extremely busy right now at Google and to get back to him in a couple months. I'll contact him again after the new year.

I've also sent emails to Bruce Perens, Kevin Mitnick, DVDJon, Judd Vinet and Patrick Volkerding.

NICE COLLECTION OF PEOPLE PAT!!

Would be totally awesome to have Kevin Mitnick on the show, poor guy was in maximum security for 8 months, I've actually never heard about his experiences with free operating systems.
Something that's ironic is that Kevin broke into Sun's network and stole the sourcecode for SunOS and ten years later, Sun open sourced Solaris.

Judland · Post by **Judland** » Tue Nov 29, 2005 1:31 pm

Patrick wrote: I've also sent emails to Bruce Perens, Kevin Mitnick, DVDJon, Judd Vinet and Patrick Volkerding.

I also e-mailed Judd Vinet, encouraging him to make arrangements with you to get on the show.

Post by **Patrick** » Tue Nov 29, 2005 1:34 pm

Judland wrote: I also e-mailed Judd Vinet, encouraging him to make arrangements with you to get on the show.

Thanks Dave. I would be cool to talk to Judd. I'm really liking Arch the more I use it. I think Dan would really like Arch.

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