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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."
SCO...copyright issues...
Can't think of a way to explain it more clearly, so they'll either get it, or mod me down with you. At least you should know that *I* laughed.
Warning: Opinions known to be heavily biased.
"Given the history one would never have expected it to do as well as it has; like chopsticks, which were actually invented by immigrant restaurant owners in America's mining communities in the 1800s..."
I feel sure that chopstcks were used long before the 1800's
T&K.
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like chopsticks, which were actually invented by immigrant restaurant owners in America's mining communities in the 1800s
Maybe you're thinking chop suey, which was invented in SF in the 1800's. Chopsticks certainly weren't.
This could all just go away if SCO said, "We think lines xx - xxx of the Linux kernel violate our contracts/licenses/copyrights." Then it would be easy. The Linux community looks at the code and traces it back to who put it there. The problem is solved (as far as Linux goes) once the code is removed and SCO has their "violator" if there even is one.
As I've said before. SCO isn't in this to do the right thing. SCO wants money and power.
get the hell over it
if it was easy to do what linus did, hurd would be flying. its not. so gnu made some tools. good for them. they released them to the free world. you dont go giving something away then bitching about credit, thats what little kids do.
linus doesnt bitch about RH making money or anyone for that matter. He doesnt bitch. He protects his trademark of Linux, but thats it. You can do what you want with the linux kernel. I bet you could take it, fork it and call it the GnuRules kernel if you really wanted to.
maybe gnu would get respect if they werent a bunch of whiny bitches. I used to respect them. I used to give them 'props' but the second gnu started being such a bitch, I began to treat them like bitches.
such is life.
like chopsticks, which were actually invented by immigrant restaurant owners in America's mining communities in the 1800s
You mean chop suey, right?
like chopsticks, which were actually invented by immigrant restaurant owners in America's mining communities in the 1800s,
You're closer than most of these lunks give you credit for. Chop _suey_, the legend goes, was tossed together by an anonymous Chinese cook for an anonymous miner in California in the late nineteenth century.
This legend is probably true, given that chop suey is approximately Cantonese for "odds and ends", and it is not a traditional Chinese dish. We also note seeing a news article some time ago claiming that Chop Suey is sold in China as _American_ food. Unfortunately, I can't find a reliable reference for any of this, so take it as you will.
As has been stated... chopsticks have been around forever. Perhaps you were thinking about fortune cookies, which WERE invented in America by Chinese immigrants. Fortune cookies and "California rolls" are two examples of "asian" cuisine invented in the U.S. that then migrated back to Asia.