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Electronic Giants Form CE Linux Forum
Adam Wern writes "Matsushita Electric Industrial, Sony Corporation, Hitachi, NEC Corporation, Royal Philips Electronics, Samsung Electronics, Sharp Corporation, and Toshiba Corporation, today announced the establishment of the CE Linux Forum. CELF will discuss and formalize requirements for extensions to Linux to meet the needs of CE products such as audio/visual products and cellular phones, etc. CELF will publish such requirements and will accept and evaluate open source solutions that support to meet the published requirements. CELF will also promote broad usage of Linux for CE products. IBM, an industry leader in Linux solutions and supporter of open standards ecosystems, is pursuing membership and plans to be an active participant in the CELF."
I believe it should be ...
... I claim exclusive ownership in all derivative works of my fecal remainders ... Take that you copyright infringement bacteria !!!!!
In other news SCO's CEO Duhr'l McBribe said they would sue the CELF members because the chips running Linux "are belong to us". "Some electrons switched states as a result of Linux instructions being executed, and as we stated before, that constitutes derivative work".
In second thought
Life isn't like a box of chocolates. It's more like a jar of jalapenos. What you do today, might burn your ass tomorrow.