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Torvalds tells EU: 'Hands off our software'
News In a statement published on an anti-patent website, Linus Torvalds, MySQL co-founder Michael Widenius and PHP creator Rasmus Lerdorf, said that software patents must not be legalised. Linus Torvalds, Michael Widenius and Rasmus Lerdorf were not... [23 Nov 2004]
BBC's Highfield beats Jobs as top man in tech
News Gates saw more pressure than ever, ending up in a tie at number 7 with Linux creator Linus Torvalds - the first time ever two Agenda Setters have tied. Along with Torvalds at 7, we have MySQL CEO Marten Mickos making his debut at 12, Open Source... [27 Sep 2004]
Linux flaw exposes crash code threat
News The program, dubbed "evil.c", causes problems with the code sent to the floating-point unit, the part of the processor that handles noninteger calculations, according to a note in a source code patch published by Linux founder Linus Torvalds. [17 Jun 2004]
Torvalds leaves Silicon Valley
News Linux leader and founder Linus Torvalds is moving with his family to Portland, Oregon, farther from hectic Silicon Valley and closer to his employer, the Open Source Development Labs in Beaverton. Until changing jobs nearly a year ago, Torvalds... [14 Jun 2004]
Intel and Red Hat team for Linux security
News In a discussion on the Linux kernel mailing list after Molnar posted the patch, Linux founder and leader Linus Torvalds asked how many programs wouldn't work using with NX enabled. NX support is important enough that it's worth risking problems... [07 Jun 2004]
Open source group won't hand over SCO docs
News It asks the non-profit group for information about email and records of conversations between its staff, FSF founder Richard Stallman and Linux kernel creator Linus Torvalds, about the enforcement of free software licenses and the vetting of... [21 May 2004]
Linus gets lawyers for defence in SCO lawsuit
News The Open Source Development Lab will pay its law firm to represent Linus Torvalds, the Linux operating system founder and leader who this week was subpoenaed in connection with a $3bn lawsuit against IBM. [14 Nov 2003]
Linux kernel suffers Trojan horse hack
News Linus Torvalds, the original creator of Linux and the lead developer of the kernel, uses BitKeeper to keep track of changes in the core software for the operating system. Linus Torvalds addressed the issue in a post to the Linux kernel mailing list. [07 Nov 2003]
Jobs and Torvalds top Agenda Setters readers' vote
News Readers' other favourites, in second and third positions, were open source kingpin Linus Torvalds and Steve Linford, the founder of anti-spam venture Spamhaus. While the silver and bronze medal positions were taken by Bill Gates and the BBC's Greg... [06 Nov 2003]
Will Linus Torvalds be the next Governor of California?
News The latest bizarre twist in the race for Governor in California has seen Linus Torvalds, the founder of Linux open source software, reportedly join the host of assorted candidates fighting to unseat current incumbent Gray Davis. [01 Sep 2003]
Unilever boosts Linux development lab
News Second, OSDL hired Linus Torvalds, the founder and leader of the Linux programming effort, earlier this month as well as Andrew Morton, a key deputy who is overseeing the forthcoming 2.6 kernel, or core, of Linux. [25 Jul 2003]
SCO revokes IBM Unix licence
News Also in the amended suit, SCO said that it owns the copyrights to Unix and criticized the practices of Linux founder and leader Linus Torvalds. A significant flaw of Linux is the inability and/or unwillingness of the Linux process manager, Linus... [17 Jun 2003]
SCO downplays legal threat to Torvalds
News SCO Group CEO Darl McBride has said a published report that his company may take legal action against Linux founder Linus Torvalds is overstated. McBride's comments were meant to address a portion of the story that stated, "McBride added that... [30 May 2003]
DRM doesn't keep Linus Torvalds awake at night
News Linus Torvalds, the founder of the Linux operating system, threw a curve ball into the open source programming community on Thursday. As Linus has pointed out, there are desirable and there are undesirable uses of DRM," wrote a Werner Almesberger. [25 Apr 2003]
IBM loses out to start-up on Linux software
News Alan Cox, the second-in-command of the Linux kernel after founder Linus Torvalds and an employee of top Linux seller Red Hat, lauded IBM's move. In a significant boost for smaller development companies, a start-up will provide the disk drive... [06 Jan 2003]
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