[LUAU] Linux on TOTN SCIFRI

Patrick Smith pssmith at pobox.com
Tue Aug 31 11:59:57 PDT 2004


At 09:17 AM 8/27/2004, you wrote:
>http://www.npr.org/programs/totn/
>
>"As Microsoft continues to dominate the world of personal computers, 
>Linux, the open source alternative, is rapidly gaining in popularity. We 
>discuss the system's appeal. Also, a fifty-year-old myth dies hard: why 
>airplanes fly."
>
>Talk of The Nation's Science Friday is discussing Linux, again.  Bruce 
>Perens was on a few years ago.  If you tune now, between 9 and 9:40ish HST 
>you can hear it, 89.3.  Otherwise, stream it later.
>
>--scott

IMHO the two expert guests were awful.  Lack of insight permeated their 
completely unenthusiastic interview.  Does Linux have a speakers 
bureau?  Quick, strike their names.

Perhaps this is a little harsh; the program did offer the listening public 
some good ideas but overall, disappointing.

-Patrick 




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