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Linus Torvalds about SCO, IP, MS and Transmeta
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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"Blessed are they that mourn the death of *BSD: for they shall be comforted with an ultradense Linux server from VA Linux, now sold by California Digital Corporation.
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"Blessed are those who dismiss out-of-hand: for they shall fail to see the Point of the Original Post.
"Blessed are those who seek to associate themselves with the latest techno-fad: for they shall be called 3L33T for at least Another Half Hour.
"Blessed are they which are persecuted for their own self-righteousness' sake: for theirs is the Kingdom of "Ask Slashdot".
"Blessed are the over-eager, who believe that Open Source is a social movement heralding the rise of a new generation: for they shall not realize that There Are No Sacred Cows.
"Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for the sake of your Favorite Operating System.
"Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in Heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.
THIS IS THE WORD OF THE LORD
From article:
" Do you steal a car in the bright daylight with a lot of people around? Or do you steal a car, go for a joyride at 4 am in the morning when there aren't a lot of people around."
I have visions of that scene from Groundhog day, except instead of Bill Murray and a groundhog driving it's Linus and a penguin...
graspee
But not as bad as the nitpicks, who don't realize that "an" is not a typo.
I enjoyed that IBM started porting Linux to the S390, found that hugely amusing. I thought, OK, somebody has done a few too many drugs.
Alright that made me laugh out loud. And confirmed the fact to the wife that I'm a geek because it did.
Damn you Torvalds...
> San Jose Mercury News has an interview with
> Linus
Alright, always wanted to know what happened to that round headed kid and his delusional dog! Why didn't Schroeder ever make it as a concert pianist - was it drugs, or did the parental pressure finally get to him? And that little red headed girl - is she working in the "male entertainment" industry somewhere?
And don't get me started on that bossy Lucy...
And confirmed the fact to the wife that I'm a geek
;)
Wife, heh. Next you'll be telling us you've had sex with said wife and have kids.
The coolest voice ever.
> Uh... sorry. Chopsticks have been in use for well over 1000 years, and probably longer.
Whereas we've only had 'forks' for the past 30...
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
> It already has with assholes like McBride suing everyone who mentions the word Linux.
Linux Linux Linux Linux Linux. Did I mention Linux? Yes I did. Linux.
Oh, by the way, Linux.
That's all I had to say. Linux.
ps Linux
Why o why does everybody and their grandma have to resort to analogies,
Well, that's a interesting question.
You see, analogies are like the string that binds together the langu-
It is really a great country we have here, when any common citizen can have a dump truck or two show up and deliver raw manure to almost any address in the country....or say these :)
. I love the sound of burning women and screaming rubber....
So, you say Linus doesn't speak English natively. Does that mean he uses an available patch to add that functionality? ;)
You are not the customer.
In those days, Richard Stallman appeared in the wilderness, proclaiming, "Repent, for the kingdom of free software has come near." This is the one of whom the prophet spoke when he said, "The voice of one crying out in the wilderness: prepare the way of Linus, make his paths straight". Now Stallman wore clothing consisting of worn-out jeans and a T-shirt with a leather belt around his waist, and his food was pizza and Jolt. Then the people of Berkeley and all of Silicon Valley were going out to him, and all of the region along the Bay, and they were baptized by him in the swimming pool, confessing their sins.
But when he saw many Microsofties and Appleites coming for baptism, he said to them, "You spawn of Satan! Who warned you to flee from the wrath to come? Bear fruit worthy of repentence. Do not presume to say to yourselves, "We have Altair as our ancestor"; for I tell you, The Computer God is able from these circuit boards to raise up children to Altair. Even now the ax is lying at the root of the btrees; every btree that does not bear fruit is cut down and thrown into a fire."
"I baptize you with water for repentence, but one who is more powerful than I is coming after me; I am not worthy to carry his sneakers. He will baptize you with The Kernel and an email. His code fork is in his hand, and he will clear the threshing floor and gather the software into distros; but the vaporware he will burn with unquenchable fire."
Always look on the briight side of life! (whistle, whistle)
I don't think it's entirely because Linus doesn't speak english natively, either, to fend off potential criticism: I speak three languages, and I know *plenty* of efl (english as a foreign language) speakers who speak english which isn't as good as Linus's (which is excellent) who can explain technical issues with more clarity.
Having heard him speak often enough, I'm reasonably sure Linus is a more accomplished English speaker than you are. But more to the point, I question why you even felt compelled to raise the issue.
I'm very sorry that your wife needs to have forking explained to her. Ah, take that how you will.
Have you got your LWN subscription yet?
So either everyone else is lying to themselves, or just you. Micro vs. monolithic kernels is a trade off (simplicity vs. speed), but with a good design, monolithic kernels are just as stable and modular. Linus won the flamewar, and Linux is winning in the real world.
It seems that open source community's stance on this is "either it's fully open or we don't support it". Sorry, but in the world where companies have to make money they have to hide some of their IP in closed source code.
Actually, I think hardware companies could probably find a better revenue source. Like, oh, I don't know, selling hardware? It's so crazy it just might work!
Litigious bastards