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Transcript of our Interview with James Gosling
The
James Gosling Interview was pretty tough to hear at points, what with all the background noise. Here is a transcript of the conversation so you can clear up some noisier parts of the cast. Special thanks to Kathleen Kriz and
Cameron McKenzie for doing this!
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Corrections:
“gustoes” -> “good stewards”
“Sandra and Baltimore” -> “Cassandra and Voldemort”
“theorem approval” -> “theorem proving”
No doubt there will be more. That the product of the audio combined with a young news intern, a tired editor and a desire to get a fairly large transcript out quickly. Great to see the readership reading right through the article.
@Ken Geis
Thanks! I’ve been over the last hour or so listening and editing, make your changes ASAP. Thanks again.
@Cameron, don’t be hard on yourself, I could barely put together sentences after JavaOne.
Thanks so much for doing this!
Major:
“Scott Pinode” -> Scott [McNealy] and Vinod [Khosla]
Minor:
“Cagary” -> Calgary
“Master’s as well” -> Master’s as well from CMU
“and you know, did a wide variety of consulting jobs” -> he doesn’t say “you know” here.
“stuipidist” -> typo
“working on this project that had people in California, Texas and Connecticut” ->
people in San Jose, California; in Austin Texas; in [garbled], Connecticut.
“lasted a year” -> lasted a year, year and a half. (maybe unnecessary correction?)
“and so he was actually trying to join Sun at the same time” -> and so he was trying to get me to join Sun
sine and cosign -> sine and cosine
“That was a very apps comparison” -> that was a very apt comparison
LinkiedIN -> LinkedIn
@Enrique
Done. Thanks a lot
@skierpage
Done, thanks! Great that you are actually listening to the cast as well as reading the script.
@skierpage
Like Kenny Bania, this is Gold Jerry, Gold!
“cosign” -> cosine typo, several times. Also “Sine” should always be lowercase.
gimp, blender, openSSO -> initial cap for each of these.
“people doing desktop software and the original versions of the Java store” -> (needs an em-dash, he changes the subject) people doing desktop software — and actually the original versions of the Java store
“get the Java store down at Sun” -> get the Java store done at Sun
“would support not just support Java but all sorts of code” -> would not support not just Java but any kind of code (inaudible)
“gird” -> grid typo
“talking to SSN folks” -> talking to the ForthRock folks (based on Wikipedia’s OpenSSO article) (63:50)
LinkiedIN, Framville, Zinga -> LinkedIn, Farmville, Zynga typos.
@skierpage
Sorry, goofed
“would support not just support Java but all sorts of code” -> would support not just Java but any kind of code (inaudible) (52:09)
“But we ended up concentrating on Java code” -> But we oddly ended up contentrating on Java code
@skierpage
Sorry about that “contentrating” typo in my fix
Amazon C3 is cool -> Amazon EC3 is cool
The end continues! (67:50)
Moderator/Random guy:
About cheapest you’re going to get is $70 a month and for a lot of people that’s not trivial
(inaudible stuff) Moderator names people?
JG: Geeky room my friends. Thanks, appreciate it.
@skierpage
Apologies for the spam, since it’s Amazon “Elastic Computing Cloud” that should be
“Amazon C3 is cool” -> Amazon EC2 is cool
Clearly we should have just posted the audio and set up a wiki site! Thanks for the updates.
@skierpage
Thanks so much, I’ve incorporated your changes.
Motorolla -> Motorola
@Eoin McCarthy
Thanks, updated.