You're fooling no one, this soap opera is just another pathetic example of leftists attempting to trick the idiotic. In the end Stallman and Torvalds both believe in copyleft and want to do away with software patents since they infringe on the property rights of so many others, just as you do. The rest is just a charade to hide from the facts.
In the end Stallman and Torvalds both believe in copyleft
But as you have been told, Torvalds sees it as a useful development model, no more. He does not have the philosophical visionary view that Stallman has. This has caused many public spats between Torvalds and Stallman and his followers, including the one you mentioned on Groklaw.
and want to do away with software patents
It's nice to see you now restrict that to software patents instead of your lying blanket anti-patent claim.
since they infringe on the property rights of so many others, just as you do
Show one infringement case brought and won against Linux.
just as you do
In any thing I've done, I claim fair use. I notice how you berated me for my "infringement" while leaving other admitted "infringers" here alone. Why is that?
You also have often quoted my copyrighted text on this board without my permission. You have even posted excerpts from copyrighted articles on this board without permission of the copyright holder. Pot calling kettle black, for sure.
BTW, I'll bet you're right on this as far as software patents go. I have written programs that other people are using. I wrote them entirely from scratch in .NET, using nothing but my standard programming skills, not trying to copy what anyone was doing (in fact, with one I was purposely trying to get away from the standard model of such apps that I didn't like).
Due to the absurdity of the software patent situation, there is a high likelihood that I've violated one or more software patents that shouldn't have been issued in the first place. Which ones? I don't know. Any standard, trivial thing I did could have been patented. I think my progress bar may have violated patent #5301348. Yes, the progress bar is patented.
In another app I did a few years ago, I know I infringed on patent #10260471 (filed 2002). But then so has almost every Lisp, Java, Pascal and C programmer, and it's certainly been infringed by anyone with a computer science degree since 2002.