Occupation: Entrepreneur Birth: November 24, 1959
Mark my words, there will be a day that will come when you will all see many, many documents that will directly contradict IBM's current public postu….
The business model of Linux distribution is broken; it's like the business model of the dotcoms. Running your company on Linux is like running your c….
IBM has taken our valuable trade secrets and given them away to Linux..
When we take a top-tier view of the amount of code showing up inside of Linux today that is either directly related to our Unix System 5 that we dire….
At the end of the day, the GPL is not about making software free; it's about destroying value..
We're not talking about insignificant amounts of code. It's substantial System V code showing up in Linux..
I've been pounding the table here for a year or so saying there's no free lunch, and there is going to be a day of reckoning for every company that t….
Linux doesn't have IP roots..
And C++ programming languages, we own those, have licensed them out multiple times, obviously. We have a lot of royalties coming to us from C++..
Obviously Linux owes its heritage to UNIX, but not its code. We would not, nor will not, make such a claim..
We counted over a million lines of code that we allege are infringed in the Linux kernel today..