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The Weekly Round-Up: 29.02.08
Round-Up Meanwhile, Geek Emperor Penguin Linus Torvalds was in jubilant and joking mood following the announcement. Torvalds wrote in an email: "I may make fun of Microsoft occasionally, and yeah, I think they do stupid things at times but I think this one... [29 Feb 2008]
MySQL puts off automatic move to GPL 3
News Linus Torvalds and other Linux kernel programmers have shown little enthusiasm for the changes. Open source database company MySQL has decided to stick to the current General Public Licence (GPL) rather than move to an upcoming revision, pending... [05 Jan 2007]
Linux leader attacks "anti-DRM" GPL
News Provisions against digital rights management (DRM) in a draft update to the General Public Licence (GPL) could undermine computer security, Linus Torvalds said this week in emails reflecting the Linux leader's pragmatic philosophy. [06 Feb 2006]
Sun mulls GPL 3 licence for Solaris
News Linux kernel project leader Linus Torvalds has said Linux will stay under the current version 2 of the GPL. Torvalds oversees the Linux kernel, which is at the heart of the open source operating system generally called Linux. [31 Jan 2006]
I won't convert Linux to GPL 3, says Torvalds
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]
Linux founder defends trademark action
News Last month, a lawyer acting on behalf of Linus Torvalds wrote to 90 companies in Australia asking them to relinquish any legal claim to the name Linux and to purchase a licence from the Linux Mark Institute (LMI), a not-for-profit organisation... [22 Aug 2005]
Torvalds wades into Linux trademark row
Last month, a lawyer acting on behalf of Linus Torvalds wrote to 90 companies in Australia asking them to relinquish any legal claim to the name Linux and to purchase a licence from the Linux Mark Institute (LMI), a non-profit organisation that is... [22 Aug 2005]
Transmeta sells microprocessor unit
The Sunnyvale, California-based company, which counted Linus Torvalds as an early employee, hoped to challenge Intel in notebooks with processors that consumed far less power. Culture.com Technology Limited, a subsidiary of Culturecom Holdings of... [02 Jun 2005]
Lack of testing 'threatening stability of Linux'
Morton commented on the ongoing war of words between Linus Torvalds and Andrew Tridgell over the recent loss of a licence to use BitKeeper to maintain the Linux kernel source tree, saying he had always had reservations over the use of a... [22 Apr 2005]
BitKeeper: No holds barred open source infighting
The fact that this particular scuffle involves two of the community's biggest names, Linux founder Linus Torvalds and Samba co-founder Andrew 'Tridge' Tridgell, goes some way to explaining why chat rooms are blazing at the moment. [20 Apr 2005]
SCO was the 'best thing that ever happened' to Linux
Cohen, who heads the organisation that employs Linus Torvalds and lead kernel maintainer Andrew Morton, said that although the litigation is "nearly dead now", its legacy is the due diligence that was done around the world on the Linux code base. [10 Mar 2005]
"Software patents are a way of life"
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]
HP tells developers to get used to patents
Among them are 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]
Sun ready for war over IP litigation
Linus Torvalds is clearly in charge of Linux so what is the difference? McNealy also defended the Java Community Process (JCP) and its "stewardship" of Java rather than a fully free or open-source licence such as the GNU General Public License (GPL). [17 Nov 2004]
Metadata reveals SCO switched legal target
News In the original version identifying Bank of America as a defendant, the document also included these allegations against the bank and Linux developers, including leading Linux figure Linus Torvalds: C]ertain of plaintiff's copyrighted software code... [05 Mar 2004]
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