Being a Mac guy, I really enjoyed Robert X. Cringely’s interview with Andy Hertzfeld (although in retrospect, the video didn’t really add much and if I had my time over I’d probably just get the audio).

There’s too much in there for me to go through it all, but the story of Knuth and the Mac Paint source was great, some of the open source software stuff was really interesting (especially the agrarian revolution point, Robert made) and the idea of Microsoft owning Switcher is quite scary.

I was a little surprised that they both see Adobe as a really strong technical company. I guess Adobe isn’t really on my radar, given that I don’t really do much of that graphics stuff, so that was interesting to hear.

Anyway, it’s worth checking out if you’re interested in that sort of thing (I’m looking forward to the Steve Wozniak one, and hoping Andrew Tridgell gets in at some point). Oh, and if you’re ever in Canberra Andy, I’m sure I could round up quite a few people who’d like to have dinner with you.