My instinct is to agree...

However, I don't think "news" means what it used to any more. Since there are so many sources of information it doesn't mean "new to the world" any more, it instead means "new to the reader".

In that sense, that it is from another year is fairly irrelevant.

Actually, it's from 2003 but the entirety of the interview is from 1999. I had that issue of Linux Magazine and I remember reading the interview back then. Sad that it took me over 10 years to really dig into vim after reading about the history of vi.