I actually agree with him on a lot of concepts, but his talk, and everything I've been reading about x86-64, and other 64bit architecture makes me wish I had a box to play with it on, but anyway an intresting thing I saw was.
LM: Besides the Linux kernel, what other open source projects are being especially impactful in IT?
Torvalds: Well, there’s the obvious ones: Perl, Apache, and MySQL, which are already big in IT. But at the same time, I actually think an even bigger impact may be through the desktop efforts of KDE, GNOME, and Open Office. I think the development there will have a more visible impact to “regular users” in the long run.
That's pretty awesome. I, personally, would love to see more linux users. And one of the things that scare people away, is the claim that linux is 'hard,' and not user-friendly. (I disagree, but whatever.) If KDE, GNOME, and Open Office's efforts are increased, I think that would attract more windows users. Because, I know when I first started using linux I was pretty lost without KDE and GNOME, and I eventually felt comfortable enough to start using a console to get things done, and nowadays I'm comfortable on any window manager. But, I believe it began with those two for me, and I believe it's the same for many other users. So, I'd be glad to see any work done to them, and OpenOffice is also a big project pertaining to adapting windows users.
