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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. Who is Linus Torvaldes? by egg+troll · · Score: 0, Troll

    Why should I care what some occasional contributor to the kernel source thinks about this. Granted I'm sure he has some insights, but there are more important people whose opinion's I'd rather hear.

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  2. Re:but did they ask him these 20 questions? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    1. Not before hell freezes over it wont..
    2. ?!
    3. Hard to use if you are a complete idiot maybe..
    4. Over a year and a half uptime on a HEAVILY used P100 system proves stability for me..
    5. But then it isn't costing you...
    6. I'll give you that one.
    7. I still use 'CMD' in Windows, as much as I use the shell in Linux.
    8. Windows doesn't run Linux programs. Point?
    9. Dell sell systems with it preloaded...
    10. Some Linux companies are doing great.. Red Hat for example.
    11. Possibly yes...
    12. Its free... so, I don't think so.
    13. Lots of choice.
    14. Who gives a rats ass.
    15. Again, thats a GoodThing(tm)
    16. Again.. if Microsoft set a glowing example then Linux would be put to shame. But they dont.
    17. Whereas Microsoft just write buggy code anyway, so...
    18. Tried it, didn't like it..
    19. Bothered.
    20. You suck!

  3. Re:The Linux "Operating System" by fucksl4shd0t · · Score: 0, Troll

    This isn't a troll.

    LIES LIES LIES and MORE LIES

    This is why:

    "Linus Torvalds, creator of Linux (an operating system kernel, which is the underlying interface to hardware devices and other system resources and not a complete package of applications/tools etc. that may or may not be GNU and copyrighted by the FSF) ...."

    Obviously a trollish statement. If you were a real person, and not a LIAR, you might have said:

    Linus Torvalds, creator of the Linux kernel

    And that would be the end of it. -operating system +kernel

    What's so hard to understand about that? Why do you think that saying "kernel" in this article means someone has to define the word "kernel", but saying "operating system" does not require definition?

    Fuck off, Troll.

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