Sonntag, 15. Juni 2003

The Interview: Some time I ago I approached Tim O'Reilly about doing an interview for publication in a German IT weekly. He agreed and so I sent him about 10 questions dealing with Open Source in general and focussing on commercial involvement. After a while he answered the questions and sent me a total of 10 pages. I was quite surprised (in a positive sense) as he had obviously taken time to answer the questions very thoroughly with lots of additional pointers to further information. Unfortunately I had to translate the whole thing into German which proved to be rather time-consuming. Anyway, I completed the translation a week or so ago, got O'Reilly Germany to double-check and then on Friday sent the whole thing off to the IT weekly. We'll see how much of it they then publish. Hopefully both the original interview and the complete German translation will be online before too long.