No, I think you were the first.

I think you should interview Richard Stallman. Sure, Linus Torvalds made a kernel, but Richard Stallman put together a free software operating system project and pretty much invented free software. I think he'd be a much more interesting person to interview. If you don't like that idea, I also think Ian Murdock would make for a good interview. I want to understand his views on free software a little bit more. He makes Debian an OS that includes only FOSS by default, but he makes a repository for non-free software. This repository of non-free software is the only thing keeping Debian from being a GNU-endorsed GNU/Linux distro. I also want to understand his opinions on the GFDL because it is so controversial in the Debian community that all documentation under the GFDL is in the non-free repository.

This interview thing sounds interesting. I think it's kind of obvious really to suggest the "big figures" - I'm thinking people like Linus Torvalds, Richard Stallman, and Mark Shuttleworth.

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Personally, as much as I agree with a lot of what Stallman says, I find his interviews/lectures a bit predictable. I kind kind of suspect what he's going to say on a given subject. He might be somewhat boring, but hell the guy has integrity and grit.

Definitely Rick Falkvinge. The founder of the Swedish Pirate Party. He knows a lot of the Greek crisis and other big-scale economic stuff, and he makes the weekly YouTube series 'Liberties Report' on, well, liberties of course, using only free software.

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Christian

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Linus Tovalds. His work and his contribution to the linux kernel so far since its inception as his project work. Is he even employed ?

How about some of the OLD veterans of the "LINUX WARS" when Bill Gates and Crew promised to kill off Linux. Also how about tracking down PJ from GrokLaw. She kep us posted to all the legal shinaigans that were going.

My Vote: PJ, then the Old vets.

Greg Kroah-Hartman.

Satoshi Nakamoto

Thanks for the feedback, keep it coming. Linus, RMS, Mark Shuttleworth and other well known figures have been interviewed many times, so we'd want to be sure we have something interesting to ask or a new angle that hasn't previously been covered. We'll start looking into some of the others.

--jeremy

How about Ethan "flibitijibibo" Lee? He's an active Linux game porter who's been interviewed fewer times than Ryan "Icculus" Gordon.

I want to know Mark Shuttleworth's opinion on Wayland. It seems a bit silly that Canonical would make a brand new display server just so that it can integrate a bit better with their desktop environment. I'd also like to understand Linus Torvalds' opinion on the GNU Hurd and Richard Stallman's idea behind the JavaScript Trap. The JavaScript Trap is RMS's only thing that I do not fully understand and agree with. He thinks that since JavaScript is obfuscated into a form that's difficult to read (look at Google.com's source code and you'll know what I mean) that it makes it more of a binary form and not the source code since it's nothing like what the developer's wrote. However, I personally think that using a deobfuscator would make the JavaScript into a working form and that making obfuscript in websites should be acceptable. I'd also like RMS's opinion on semi-proprietary software like Qt and NGINX. What I mean is that there is a FOSS "community" version of the software, but that the developers purposely restrict its features so that they can make a premium, proprietary version. I want to know if this type of software is something we should avoid or if it is perfectly acceptable and just as good as any fully-FOSS equivalents like GTK+ and Apache for my previous example.

It would be a little ironic if LinuxQuestions.org interviewed RMS though since he is for calling the OS GNU+Linux and the LQ name calls it Linux.

Clement Lefebvre, the Linux Mint project leader.