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Linus Torvalds: I Have Never Really Talked To Microsoft! (Linus Interview covering multiple topics)
efytimes.com ^ | Monday, August 20, 2007 | Swapnil Bhartiya, EFY News Network

Posted on 08/20/2007 7:56:42 AM PDT by N3WBI3

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Interesting interview..
1 posted on 08/20/2007 7:56:45 AM PDT by N3WBI3
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To: N3WBI3; ShadowAce; Tribune7; frogjerk; Salo; LTCJ; Calvinist_Dark_Lord; amigatec; Fractal Trader; ..

OSS Ping..


2 posted on 08/20/2007 7:57:45 AM PDT by N3WBI3 (Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak....)
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To: N3WBI3

B4L8r


3 posted on 08/20/2007 8:35:09 AM PDT by Kevmo (We should withdraw from Iraq — via Tehran. And Duncan Hunter is just the man to get that job done.)
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Where’s the part about him hating capitalism and embracing Soviet communism like his parents, eh? Where’s the part about him wanting to destroy all US-based software companies with his cloned foreign freeware? I think this is a bunch of lies....

Do you know who else lied? Hitler!


4 posted on 08/20/2007 8:51:37 AM PDT by Salo
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That would have been funny if I did not think it wa a serious post by our RT, speaking of which I have to be true to my word and turn the filter back on...


5 posted on 08/20/2007 8:53:43 AM PDT by N3WBI3 (Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak....)
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GPL3 is “petty,” “small-minded,” and “selfish.” Actually, that describes Stallman himself very well. The zealots aren’t going to like this one, and certain trolls might not like the clear evidence that this isn’t one big Stallman-following community.


6 posted on 08/20/2007 8:56:48 AM PDT by antiRepublicrat
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To: Salo

Did you change your screen name from Golden Eagle?


7 posted on 08/20/2007 8:58:30 AM PDT by ikka
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Ive seen some comments on it, I thought it was a great layout of the three licenses GPL2/3 and BSD..


8 posted on 08/20/2007 9:07:38 AM PDT by N3WBI3 (Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak....)
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Two things, one, Sun is absolutely stupid if they put Solaris under GPL 3.

Two, the reason there aren't more Indian's working in Linux is that the entire country's tech education system tells their kids that Microsoft is the One True Path To Prosperity. Americans and Europeans work on open source stuff for fun or duty. Indians want to get paid. None of this volunteer stuff for them, thank you.
9 posted on 08/20/2007 10:10:57 AM PDT by DesScorp
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LOL if you think I’m going to believe his comments at some photo op, in his e-mails from a few years ago he talks about quote “whacking the guy” if he’s ever sued for patent infringement. Other times he’s been caught talking about quote “total world domination” and referred to superior US software competitors like Apple as “a piece of crap”. Even though his only claim to fame is copying other people’s work, he obvously loves himself since that’s that’s about the only thing he ever has anything good to say about, his rent trip to Google he apparently insulted many there too simply for asking questions. Glad to see Linux market share falling according to recent web counters, myself, and US based Unix companies making a resurgence.


10 posted on 08/20/2007 12:58:17 PM PDT by Golden Eagle
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I guess it’s gotten beyond the point of mockery....


11 posted on 08/20/2007 1:26:32 PM PDT by Salo
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To: Golden Eagle

FYI: Filters are back on so I wont see your post unless (1) Someone quotes to you the garbage you usually spew or (2) you, or has happened in the past, someone else pm’s me the garbage you spew.

I will see that you post but not what you post and thus, will be unable to respond to you.. Have a nice day..


12 posted on 08/20/2007 1:36:43 PM PDT by N3WBI3 (Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak....)
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the garbage you usually spew

Yeah my support of American companies and original US products over cheap foreign fakes originating from socialist countries really bothers you doesn't it LOL.

13 posted on 08/20/2007 1:50:14 PM PDT by Golden Eagle
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The mods do a fine job, he has post pulled all the time and has his account suspended many times (once just a few days ago)..


15 posted on 08/20/2007 2:38:38 PM PDT by N3WBI3 (Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak....)
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FYI: Filters are back on so I wont see your post...

Damn! You didn't send me that filter, so now *I* have to put up with his sub-paramecium IQ spewing garbage... sheesh, take pity upon me. Share the filter.

Or is there something like the "abuse" button, but instead sez that the indicated poster doesn't have the intelligence to adequately post and it's abuse of our sensibilities to have to wade through his garbage and then all we'll see is something like when the Admin Mods pull an offensive post, like:

Comment deleted because poster doesn't have enough intelligence to post.

16 posted on 08/20/2007 4:04:57 PM PDT by hadit2here ("Most men would rather die than think. Many do." - Bertrand Russell)
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I’ve probably only been suspended about 0.5% of the times you’ve cried for help though, you’ve even been warned for whining too much LOL.


17 posted on 08/20/2007 6:40:13 PM PDT by Golden Eagle
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Some posts are just so insane, reflecting such a serious case of paranoid schizophrenia, that I don’t really know where to start a reply. Facts don’t work, common sense doesn’t work, against the clinically paranoid.


18 posted on 08/21/2007 7:40:54 PM PDT by antiRepublicrat
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paranoid schizophrenia

You must mean like people that use terms like "republicrat". I never even heard of it before, wikipedia says it's a term often used by liberals, which does make perfect sense.

19 posted on 08/21/2007 9:26:13 PM PDT by Golden Eagle
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You must mean like people that use terms like "republicrat". I never even heard of it before, wikipedia says it's a term often used by liberals, which does make perfect sense.

It's used by a lot of people to show disdain for two parties that are sometimes hard to differentiate, acting much the same, giving no real reason to vote for one over the other. In my case, both now seem to be for big government, big spending, expanded federal power, illegal immigration, promotion of corporate special interests to the detriment of the people, and control over your personal life. About the only practical difference now is in national security, and that's just a recent rift in the duopoly.

20 posted on 08/22/2007 7:19:01 AM PDT by antiRepublicrat
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