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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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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 season
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]
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]
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]
"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]
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