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Nick Holloway
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Nick Holloway : Übersicht
07-Dec-2001/09-Jan-07
Übersicht
Nick Holloway doesn't think the beginnings of Linux were
all that revolutionary when it started out. As Nick recalls,
I have seen it in action with the various source newsgroups
(alt.sources, comp.sources.unix, comp.sources.misc), where I could make
changes, submit them back to the author, and see them in the next
release. Initially, Linux wasn't all that different. It was just an OS
kernel, rather than an application. It just grew to be a much larger
scale.
Nick considers his contributions to Linux to be relatively modest--as do
many original kernel hackers.
I was interested in the areas that I needed to work for me. I
contributed patches to libc4 when I found problems ... I contributed tab
expansion for the tty layer in the kernel when I wanted to use a dumb
terminal that couldn't handle hardware tabs. However, these days, my
involvement normally is restricted to tracking the Linux kernel mailing
list and browsing the patches. I'll submit minor patches from time to
time, but I am not a mainstream contributor.
As a Ph.D. student at the University of Warwick, Nick first heard about
Linux through Usenet. ``I immediately subscribed to alt.os.linux so I
could read more. In early 1993, I bought a machine specifically to run
Linux.'' Nick was one of the many Linux hackers who was weaned on UNIX,
having used both BSD and the SunOS ``almost exclusively'' since starting
at the university in 1985. The problem was that he wanted a home
computer and he wanted to run UNIX. ``When Linux became available, it
was the obvious choice to me,'' he says. ``It had enough to get started
and be usable, but there was plenty of scope for being able to
contribute to the development.''
This best-of-both-worlds thinking carries over to Nick's opinion of
Linux's present-day situation. The open-source operating system's
exceptional popularity, he thinks, has definitely helped quicken the
pace of development, guessing that Linux might have remained ``a
hacker's plaything'' otherwise. As such, Nick believes there is a place
for commercial applications being written for Linux. He says,
Just because the OS and many of the standard applications are free
doesn't mean they all have to be. If a company has to invest in
producing an application for Linux, then they have the right to charge
for it.
In fact, as far as Nick is concerned, such so-called profiteering can
actually end up helping the Linux development community. ``For example,
Red Hat and SuSE are in the position to employ important hackers, which
means [hackers] don't suffer from real work getting in the way of their
Linux work.''
Which is something Nick knows all too well. Currently employed in ``the
development of business-to-business e-commerce solutions,'' Nick spends
his work time with Windows NT and Solaris. All the same, he says, it's
not so bad. ``It allows me to separate work and play in a clean way.''
Nick Holloway's e-mail address is
Nick.Holloway@alfie.demon.co.uk.
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=4037.
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