November 1, 2005

ONDotnet.com has published a fascinating two-part interview with Anders Hejlsberg, the chief architect of the C# language. Anders talks about the past, present, and future of C# and .NET.

May 3, 2005

Engadget has published a two-part interview with Bill Gates, where he talks extensively about the Xbox 360, Windows Mobile 2005, HD-DVD vs. Blu-Ray, Windows Media Center, IPTV, and Tablet PCs. The only topic not discussed is Longhorn.

April 26, 2005

CNET and CRN have published interviews with Hector Ruiz, CEO of Advanced Micro Devices. Some of the topics discussed include 64-bit computing, AMD's future plans, why Dell doesn't use AMD chips, dual-core and quad-core plans, and the possibility of the $100 PC.

April 1, 2005

OFB sat down to talk with Richard M. Stallman, founder of the Free Software Foundation and author of the GPL open source license. Topics discussed included Linux, GPL, intellectual property, the Free BIOS project, and more.

March 31, 2005

CNET has interviewed Bill Joy, a co-founder of Sun Microsystems, who is now a venture capitalist at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. Among the topics discussed: abuse of technology by corporations and government, the current state of the venture capital industry, and the hot areas for venture capital investment.

March 30, 2005

OSDir.com has published an interview with the developers of Multi Theft Auto, a free unofficial modification of Grand Theft Auto 3 and Grand Theft Auto: Vice City. The three developers, only 18, 21, and 22 years old, reverse engineered the game title to turn a single-player game into a networked multi-player game without access to the game's source code.

March 24, 2005

DevSource interviews scripting language developers Damian Conway, Rohan Pall, Guido von Rossum, Dave Thomas, and Jeff Hobbs. Find out what languages like Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, and Tcl offer in comparison to the more traditional languages like C/C++, Java, C#, and Visual Basic.

March 23, 2005

Neowin.net has posted an interview with the head developer of PyMusique, a program that lets user's buy songs from Apple's iTunes Music Store completely free of digital rights management (DRM).

March 21, 2005

ONDotnet.com has interviewed Miguel de Icaza, the lead developer of the Mono open source .NET framework. Half the interview is about the current state of Mono, and the other half is about upcoming new features like Windows.Forms, C# 2.1, 64 bit support, JScript and Visual Basic compilers, new garbage collectors, ahead-of-time compilation, Java support, GTK# improvements, Cocoa# integration, and more.

March 15, 2005

MadPenguin.org interviewed Josh Burkus, one of the core developers of the open source PostgreSQL database. Josh talks about the highlights of new PostgreSQL 8.0, the recent project backing by Fujitsu, and features in upcoming versions including PostgreSQL 8.1. Other topics include replication, clustering, bit-mapped indexes, new advanced indexing, two-phase commit, and stored procedures.

March 9, 2005

Bill Gates sat down for an interview with CNET to talk about Microsoft's new effort to unseat Oracle, SAP, and IBM in the high-end business applications market.

March 9, 2005

OrangeCrate.com has interviewed the CEO of Win4Lin, a company that makes software for running Windows 9x/ME/2000/XP/2003 on top of Linux. Products discussed include Win4Lin Home, Win4Lin 9X, Win4Lin Pro, and Win4Lin Terminal Server.

March 2, 2005

Linus Torvalds released the official Linux 2.6.11 kernel today. No new features, just bug fixes and stability improvements. In related news, Alan Cox, a fellow Linux kernel developer talks about what it's like working with Linus Torvalds.

February 25, 2005

ONLamp.com has interviewed the core NetBSD developers to find out more about what makes NetBSD 2.0 so special.

February 18, 2005

Peter Jennings from ABC News sat down with Bill Gates for a lengthy one-on-one interview. The big topic of discussion? Security, and what Microsoft is doing about it. Other topics include Firefox, open source, the economy, and more.

January 13, 2005

Linux creator Linus Torvalds spoke this week about security issues in Linux and with open source software in general.