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Torvalds Says Linux IP Is Sound
An anonymous reader submits: "In an interview with CRN, Linus Torvalds says he's confident there won't be any IP problems discovered in Linux. In fact, Torvalds, says he was extra careful with issues like the IBM Read Copy Update code."
What a relief. It would really suck to have to switch back to IPX after all these years.
sulli
RTFJ.
make the TCP/IP jokes stop, please!
The Linux intellectual property is really sound, and not code? Oh great, now the RIAA are gunna bust our nuts for distributing Linux for free!
mogorific carpentry experiments
Then if it falls in the forest does anyone hear it?
"It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance." - Thomas Sowell
what does it sound like?
linux when they pry it from my cold dead hands, no wait, i meant to post that on the nra site. good to see linus finally helping to clarify things
Because he's one baaaad computer hackin' mutha fucka.
About time this came back around. I've been playing this throught my head over and over again, every time this SCO thing comes up, and finally we see the way it really works out.
See, we know SCO is like Darth Vader, and Microsoft is like the Emperor, pulling his strings. Now, we always thought IBM was Luke, kind of, in that they're the ones having to fight off Vader, but I couldn't quite figure out who Linus was. At first, I figured he was Han Solo, with the helping and the fighting and all, and Alan Cox is obviously Chewbacca (just check the hair).
But now I think we see that Linus is really a mix of Obi-Wan and Yoda, because he's helping and guiding, but not really fighting himself. At least I thought he was Yoda, just except for the lying (I mean, wtf didn't Yoda ever tell Luke SCO was his father?) but now we see Obi-Wan taking a more active role, actually standing up to SCO! So we're at the "full circle" part, where Linus tells SCO that if he strikes him down (i.e., inspects the code) he'll become more powerful (i.e. open sourced and GPL protected) than he can possibly imagine.
See, now it all makes sense! Now we just need Luke (IBM) to blow up the "Death Star" (frivilous lawsuits) with a proton torpedo (the GPL) shot down an "exhaust tube" (an exhaust tube). I hope that cleared it all up for everybody.
Consensual sex is boring.
A mathematician is saying that a-b = (a+b)(a-b)? There must be at least one lawyer payed by a rich company that could win a case against it...
but what about the TCP problems?
I am your boss at a major Fortune 500 company. You are fired.
You are thinking wrong. Remember this is going to be tried in Utah. Here in a nutshell will be basis for this trial.
1) SCO is a Utah company.
2) The holding company is also based in Utah (and salt lake).
3) Son of Orrin Hatch the beloved senator from Utah will be the lawyer for SCO.
4) Linux is communist software written by hippies.
Now I ask you good mormon members of this jury. Are you going to rule in favor for this fine mormon company or are you going to rule in favor of a bunch of communist hippies?
SCO has this trial locked up. They will win it no matter what the evidence. It's going to be up to the appelate court to really decide this. Trust me no jury in salt lake is going to rule against the local boys.
War is necrophilia.
Anyway, even though this interview is really short,...
It's short? Thanks for the info, I might read the article then.
Linus :
Curious mathematical idea, but lovely rhetoric.
When was the last time someone who "liked" you asked for money, every year, to continue seeing them?
:(
I knew something was wrong when my girlfriend asked if I could do direct deposit.
Oh, but you've forgotten IBM's ace in the hole:
5) SCO stands for Santa Cruz Operation.
Now we all know that Santa Cruz is full of dope smoking hippies. These dope smoking hippies are trying to PRETEND to be good Mormons and pull one over on IBM which, though we're not a Mormon business, we like to dress like Mormon missionaries.
At least it's better than Darl's impending quote:
I'm your mom and you're grounded.
If you ever go to utah (and I have) you will notice two things. Two things people in Utah hate more then hippies and liberals are californians and new yorkers.
War is necrophilia.
Actually, I believe the stories stopped due to the restraining order preventing SCO from spreading their crap so as not to bias any court decision.
GJC
Gregory Casamento
## Chief Maintainer for GNUstep
I have a feeling that if some company sued MS based on code being misused, we'd want the small-fry to have a chance. SCO should be no different.
BZZZZZT!!! Wrong. Most of Slashdot wants SCO to be ripped apart and scattered to the four winds. Why? Because SCO has attacked a sacred cow er... gnu I mean. Gnu, cow, almost the same thing. Ungulates with horns.
Torvalds: The biggest effect by far has just been a lot of time wasted on discussion.
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Think where Linux could be if there wasn't a
Ooh, a sarcasm detector. Oh, that's a real useful invention.