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Linus Torvalds speaks out against EU patent law
Talkback I think comparing david beckham making you a suit with linus torvalds talking about software patent law is unfair. Linus is just making sure that open source movement is being heard. When you want a suit, definitely you will go to your tailor or a...
[November 24, 2004, 4:32]
Linus Torvalds speaks out against EU patent law
News Linux creator Linus Torvalds has made an appeal to the EU Council to oppose the adoption of the Directive on the Patentability of Computer-Implemented Inventions, known as the software patent directive.
[November 23, 2004, 11:35]
Linus Torvalds speaks out against EU patent law
Talkback Who cares what Linus Torvalds thinks? Taking legal advice from Linus Torvalds would be like getting your suits made by A brave Anonymous from Bath (wherever that may locate) said : Is > he a lawyer? No !
[November 24, 2004, 11:53]
Linus Torvalds speaks out against EU patent law
Talkback > Who cares what Linus Torvalds thinks? Aside from the doubtful nature of Torvalds' legal advice, these statements are so factually incorrect as to be ridiculous. No, he wrote a popular operating system - if this concept you're referring to goes by...
[November 23, 2004, 13:19]
Linus Torvalds speaks out against EU patent law
Talkback Who cares what Linus Torvalds thinks? Taking legal advice from Linus Torvalds would be like getting your suits made by David Beckham! Is he a lawyer? No! Does he understand European politics? No! Is he a successful businessman?
[November 23, 2004, 12:56]
Exclusive: Linus Torvalds tells his story
News As the sub-head to the title suggests, Linus Torvalds came into the world of open source by a roundabout route. But of course the book is not all about Linus Torvalds. Just For Fun: The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary by Linus Torvalds and...
[April 10, 2001, 7:40]
Linus Torvalds supports Apple computers
News Linus Torvalds, creator of the Linux operating system, says he is keen to smooth relations with Apple fans, having caused a storm with off-the-cuff remarks made in his new autobiography about the core of the company's flagship OS X.
[April 10, 2001, 7:49]
Man of the Century: Linus Torvalds?
News And at No.is none other than the father of Linux, Linus Torvalds -- and that's his rank without the bulk of Linux fandom rallying behind him. Can Torvalds catch and surpass No. Yes, Torvalds is great, they say, but there are greater people in the...
[August 4, 1999, 8:03]
Exclusive: Linus Torvalds tells his story
Talkback Linus never admitted to modifying Minix. What Trollup! Minix and Linux are fundamentally different OS's. Linux is as much a product of Minix as all of your articles are a product of the windoze operating system you wrote your news articles on (or...
[July 3, 2004, 0:56]
Linus Torvalds speaks out against EU patent law
Talkback Linus is right. You falacies Ad Hominem attacking linus, do not demostrate taht their affirmations are false or untrue. Patents must be not for software, because every day tons of people develop new ideas on software easily, but they do not have...
[November 23, 2004, 15:49]
News Burst: New Linux in autumn, says Linus Torvalds
News The next major release of the Linux operating system kernel will be made available this autumn, promises father of the open source operating system, Linus Torvalds. Speaking at a trade show in San Jose, California, Torvalds told the Washington Post...
[August 18, 2000, 13:01]
Linus Torvalds speaks out against EU patent law
Talkback Software problems have a lot of problems: Software patents cover really basic principles that any number of developers can and will independently invent. They're embarassing really. A program will involve hundreds and thousands of ideas, so will it...
[November 23, 2004, 16:50]
Linus Torvalds speaks out against EU patent law
Talkback Copyrights are adequate to protect the software you wrote from being used without your consent and without an agreed fee. If you have a business and you 'pirate' your copy of WindowsXP and the 'Business Software Consortium' find out, they will...
[November 23, 2004, 21:19]
Linus Torvalds speaks out against EU patent law
Talkback Torvalds is right. I hope Europe doesn't make the same mistake that the U.S.has made. Software patents in th U.S.have created a situation in which programmers cannot risk writing code unless they are in the employ and under the protection of large...
[November 23, 2004, 14:25]
Linus Torvalds speaks out against EU patent law
Talkback I understand that Microsoft applied for a patent for the "double click" feature found in one of its hand held, remote, devices. Do you suppose that means that any device manufactured from now on that utlizes the double click feature found in almost...
[November 26, 2004, 1:55]
Tiemann steers course for open source
News In 1989, nearly two years before Linus Torvalds ever wrote a line of Linux code, Michael Tiemann had already co-founded a business based around an open-source programming tool called the GCC compiler.
[December 5, 2002, 7:22]
Torvalds: Linux ready to go green
News The infrastructure and tools required to make Linux a green operating system are now in place, according to Linus Torvalds, who was in Melbourne this week attending Australia's largest Linux conference.
[January 31, 2008, 7:20]
Row brewing over Linux patches
News A proposal to help Linus Torvalds keep up with patches for Linux has sparked a controversy over whether the operating system has outgrown its creator. Part of the problem is that Linus' way of rejecting things is to simply ignore them.
[February 1, 2002, 6:01]
Linux creator takes commercial position
News Linus Torvalds is getting down to the business of Linux. Linus' decision to join us is a confirmation of the importance of our mission. The addition of Linus' perspective and guidance to the Lab will enhance our value to all three of these groups.
[June 17, 2003, 15:16]
GNOME and KDE battle rages on
News A debate sparked late last year by Linus Torvalds over the best Linux desktop environment is still continuing on blogs around the world. Finding this quote by Linus was really refreshing. In mid December, Torvalds, the creator of Linux and the...
[January 4, 2006, 11:25]
