CNET editor Stephen Shankland interviews Red Hat Chief Technology Officer (CTO) Michael Tiemann (photo at left), in this episode of CNET's “Vision Series” (which includes interviews with other open source “visionaries”). Shankland writes . . .

“In 1989, nearly two years before Linus Torvalds ever wrote a line of Linux code, Michael Tiemann had already co-founded a business based around an open-source programming tool called the GCC compiler. As one of the early participants in the collaborative programming movement, Tiemann has watched open-source software outgrow its renegade origins to become an integral part of that most establishment of computing companies, IBM . . .”

Topics covered include . . .

• Is the Linux community going to become more, or less dependent on the skills of Linus Torvalds?
  
• Will there come a point when the code becomes so unmanageable that it prevents the community from making major improvements without breaking too many other things?
  
• How does the open-source business model look when you compare 1989 to the present and future?
  
• Then is the battle over open-source won?
  
• What political challenges will open-source face in copyright law or digital rights management or intellectual property issues?
  
• What's the biggest problem in Linux that will be fixed in the next three years?
  
• In three years, will Linux run well on 32-processor servers? How about 64-processor servers?
  
• Which do you think will prevail, Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD)-style licenses or General Public Licenses (GPL)-style?
  
• How will the open-source community push security forward?
  
• Where else will the open-source community be coming up with new ideas?

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