Where is Transmeta Heading?

Autoversicherung writes "Transmeta, once the darling of Silicon Valley, employer of Linus Torvalds and heralded as the new Intel is facing bleak times. Having $53.7 million in cash and short-term investments in its coffers, enough for just under two quarter's worth of operations and a reported net loss of $28.1 million and revenues of $11.2 million for the fourth quarter of 2004 the company's future is everything but certain. Will the planned restructuring to a pure IP company help?"

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Re:A purely IP company, huh?

[GNUALMAFUERTE]

Every asshole out there is calling the GNU System + the Linux kernel just "Linux". When people refers to GNU/Linux, they say "Linux is an operating system". When people refers to GNU, they say "It's a project to create a free operating system". Hello?; A "Project", it sounds as it was never finished, the system is here, and you are using it !!!
All this misconception was created by Torvadls and other "Open Source" advocates, if you don't beleive me, just read the release notes for some _old_ versions of Linux, from even before distributions existed, and see how Torvalds talks about his kernel as a full operating system, and only mentions that 'some pieces of software where taken from gnu'

Re:A purely IP company, huh?

[GNUALMAFUERTE]

There is a project. That project is named GNU. They develop the majority of the software. Other people CONTRIBUTES pieces of software to this project. That does justify a name change?, NO. It's still called GNU. Suddenly, people FORGETS ABOUT GNU and forgets about WHAT GNU MEANS, and just calls the system Linux, leaving behind all the philosofical background. Then, GNU advocates proposte that peoples call the system GNU/Linux, when actually should be just GNU, in order to try to agree on a name and stop the discussion.
I Don't really care about the name, if the name was something trivial, that didn't have some other value. We previously had Phoenix, then Firebird, then Firefox. It doens't matter. The name doesn't have any special meaning. But, in this case, it does. GNU has a strong philosofical background. Linux Doesn't. That's why the system should be called GNU, or GNU/Linux if you want to give credit to Torvalds.