This case isn't over, and even if it was it's not the end of legal challenges Linux faces, the senior counsel for the FSF has already publicly admitted there are around 300 possible patent infringements in the Linux kernel alone. I find it rather disgusting to see Americans (?) so openly supporting a foreign clone of US UNIX over the original American product, but some people just don't care about anything much other than what they can get for themselves, especially for "free", or at least Richard Stallman's version of it.
Give me a break. They are a bunch of pathetic losers without technical skills just doing the system abuse that most of the rest of us won't.
Technically true, but misleading. The story of your posting history (on those occasions where what you wrote is actually technically true).
Long time no hear GE. You still haven't retracted your libel and your lie from a while back.
Well, some of us are on severley limited budgets right now, and free is attractive. Then there's the fact that some of us don't like the idea that, to some (ahem.. M$), our computers and data belong to them, and in order for our legally purchased software to run, it has to phone home and send all sorts of information back to HQ before permission is granted to run.
Oh and never mind that a growing number of us like to build our own systems, and sometimes make wholsale changes to the hardware configurations resulting in another phone back to HQ to get permission to run again. And I hear Vi$ta will be even more re$trictive in that regard.
So no thanks. It's called a free market, and if someone can come up with as good or better mousetrap, for lower cost (or free), then he gets the business.
Rant and rave all you want, but your master's business model has forced this issue and it ISN'T going away. Get over it!
Oh please, drop the emotionally-charged and misleading rhetoric. If LINUX is a "clone" of anything, it's MINIX, not UNIX, and it really isn't even a clone of that.
What LINUX is is a POSIX-compliant operating system, POSIX being a standard introduced by UNIX developers to ensure OS interoperability. In other words, the development of LINUX is exactly the sort of thing not only anticpated by UNIX, but endorsed and enabled via adherence to the POSIX standard.