Perens Dismisses Torvald's Patent Pool

ficken writes "Open source activist Bruce Perens has dismissed as inadequate a new IP initiative backed by Linus Torvalds. The Open Source Development Labs' (OSDL) patent commons project is intended to provide patent protection to open source developers. Perens, speaking at LinuxWorld, compared the patent pool to "spitting in the wind" -because the patents it contained come from "the wrong people.""

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oh yeah!

[pair-a-noyd]

Bitch fight!!

SLASHDOT - BORG

[Anonymous Coward]

Yeah, I'm glad I'd wrote that anonymously as moderation around here has become ridiculous again - 'tow the company line', or lose your karma.

It's no longer possible for discussion to happen around here...

Re:Stop the infighting

[Anonymous Coward]

shut the fuck up karma whore and you didnt even get modded up


heres a pic of linus working on some linux source code at his computer. initially microsoft payed the private eye to capture linus' fat ass making bloated linux code http://d62.net/img/fi1hj_1123785488465.jpg


also uncovered, perens and torvalds personal gay porn site http://www.lemonparty.org/

Re:Stop the infighting

[Anonymous Coward]

Let's face it. You are an idiot.

Is Bruce still relevant?

[Phrogger]

Does anyone else think that Bruce Perens is becoming an irrelevant also-ran? It seems to me that he's better known for starting projects in a flurry of publicity that wind up as vaporware (User Linux anyone?)

    So now he has the role of pundit, sniping at others from the sideline.

Re:Stop the infighting

[carnivore302]

And I agree even more. No wonder HP fired Perens. His mouth is bigger than his brains.