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Canonical joins Linux Foundation
News As well as promoting Linux around the world, the Linux Foundation also sponsors the work of Linux kernel project lead Linus Torvalds. Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth has been a member of the Linux Foundation board since early 2007. [20 Aug 2008]
Open source gets own legal pow wows
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]
Open source alliance forged over Linux standards
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]
Torvalds agrees to Linux "breather"
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]
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 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]
Torvalds launches new Linux management system
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]
Inside Linux: What life's like with Linus
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]
"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]
Patents - weapons of mass [software] destruction?
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]
IBM slammed over patent giveaway
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]
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]
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