[linux-elitists] Questions for Linus Torvalds?

[James Sparenberg]

Don Marti wrote:
> Just got an assignment from a media site to interview
> Linus Torvalds -- any questions you want asked please
> let me know and I'll try to fit them in.
>
> No, I'm not going to ask "are you going to use GPLv3?"
> or "When do I really have to call fsync(2)?"
>
>   
Two questions, feel free to wordsmith (others will I'm sure ;) )

1.  With the release of Android, we now have a "version" of Linux that 
is not a GNU dominated, Unix like cross platform system.  In fact 
T-Mobile seems poised to make it an OS on multiple (Cell Phone/Home 
Phone/Netbook) consumer products they sell. What does he see as the 
affect of Android on the market place, and Linux as a whole.

2.  Intel Atom vs ARM;  as ARM CPU's are reaching computational capacity 
previously only held by i386 and some MIPS systems, what does he see as 
the outcome and the future here.  Especially since the OS from Redmond 
doesn't run on ARM.

James