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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. Where on earth do you get this bullshit? by titzandkunt · · Score: 1, Redundant


    "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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    Political language ... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable...
  2. Re:The Linux "Operating System" by Zebbers · · Score: 1, Redundant

    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.