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Linus Torvalds about SCO, IP, MS and Transmeta

Posted by michael on from the smorgasbord dept.

strmcrw writes " San Jose Mercury News has an interview with Linus. He talks about about SCO vs IBM and gives his opinion on Microsoft. He also shed light on his decision to leave chip maker Transmeta for a Linux corporate software consortium, the Open Source Development Lab."

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  1. The Transmeta Connection by Anil+Kandangath · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Now when do we see a Transmeta chip that can run both Unix and Windows programs? Seems to me like a waste of the RISC architecture of Transmeta if it only runs Windows/Linux.

  2. Minix: the origin of Linux? by mikiN · · Score: 1, Flamebait
    In the interview, Linus says that the origin of Linux was all written by himself. Yet, Linux history indicates to me that it was heavily influenced by Minix. In the early development stages of Linux, Minix was, I believe, not yet freely redistributable. So my question is: how much of the original Linux code actually 'borrowed' from non-free Minix and to what extent?

    If any patents could be issued on any part of Minix (not possible anymore, I believe, because it has already been published), then this would mean bad times for Linux under the proposed new EU patent legislation.

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  3. Re:Linus the Unknown Comic by fucksl4shd0t · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Alright that made me laugh out loud. And confirmed the fact to the wife that I'm a geek because it did.

    Hasn't she seen your dick? Isn't that proof enough?

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