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Leader Stalwarts in these areas such as Bruce Perens at 39, Linus Torvalds at 44 and Richard Stallman at 40 all make the list and not for the first time. Wunderkind Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook, has walked away with this year's top Agenda Setter...
[15 Oct 2007]
AS Analysis Stalwarts in these areas such as Bruce Perens at 39, Linus Torvalds at 44 and Richard Stallman at 40 all make the list and not for the first time. Wunderkind Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook, has walked away with this year's top Agenda Setter...
[12 Oct 2007]
AS Analysis GNU founder Richard Stallman reappears at number 40 in the rankings and Linux creator Linus Torvalds at number 44 after a brief absence by both men from the Agenda Setters list of 2006. Microsoft has been at the centre of controversy over the past...
[12 Oct 2007]
News It sponsors the work of Linux founder Linus Torvalds and counts companies such as Google, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Intel and Novell among its members. The Linux Foundation, custodian of the Linux trademark, has announced two summits to deal with legal...
[13 Sep 2007]
News OSDL, which employs Linux founder Linus Torvalds, was established in 2000 to try to improve the operating system for high-end servers. The Open Source Developer Labs (OSDL) and the Free Standards Group (FSG), two groups trying to standardise and...
[22 Jan 2007]
News Linus Torvalds, the founder of Linux and maintainer of the development kernel, has agreed with his second-in-command, Andrew Morton, that the Linux kernel is becoming more bug-ridden. Torvalds agreed with Morton's comments in an interview with news...
[10 May 2006]
News Linus Torvalds said on Wednesday that he won't convert Linux to version 3 of the General Public Licence (GPL), as he objects to digital rights management (DRM) provisions in the proposed update. Torvalds said in a posting to the Linux kernel...
[27 Jan 2006]
Photo Bruce Perens - open source guru, author of The Open Source Definition and friend of Linus Torvalds - chaired a lively break-out session on the future of open source in the enterprise with a group of CIOs.
[28 Sep 2005]
AS Profile His authority at times even outshines Linux creator Linus Torvalds, according to the panel, by virtue of the fact he "just never shuts up". Founder of the GNU Project and the Free Software Foundation, Stallman ranks primarily for his contributions...
[23 Sep 2005]
News Linux founder Linus Torvalds has defended his protection of the Linux trademark and claims that sublicensing the trademark is a loss-making operation. Last month, a lawyer acting on behalf of Linus Torvalds wrote to 90 companies in Australia asking...
[22 Aug 2005]
News Linux founder and leader Linus Torvalds has launched a new tool, called Git, to manage his software project, after a dispute led him to drop the previous system. BitMover founder Larry McVoy complained about efforts in the open-source community to...
[21 Apr 2005]
News Linux kernel maintainer Alan Cox has given an insight into the experience of working with Linus Torvalds, the founder of Linux who maintains its development kernel. During a talk last weekend at the Free and Open source Software Developers European...
[02 Mar 2005]
News Among them Richard Stallman, president of the Free Software Foundation; Linus Torvalds, founder of Linux, which piggybacked on Stallman's Gnu's Not Unix (GNU) operating system project; and Brian Behlendorf, a founder of the Apache Web server...
[16 Feb 2005]
News Two open source leaders joined Linux founder Linus Torvalds in disparaging software patents on Tuesday, the newest volley in a battle that pits the cooperative programming philosophy against Microsoft.
[02 Feb 2005]
News This is a concern of many prominent open source developers, including Linux creator Linus Torvalds and MySQL co-founder Michael Widenius. IBM's decision to allow open source developers to freely use hundreds of software patents was criticised as...
[11 Jan 2005]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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