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 thinks they are going to try and sell a free model.
Obviously Linux owes its heritage to UNIX, but not its code. We would not, nor will not, make such a claim. - Darl Mcbride
Obviously Linux owes its heritage to UNIX, but not its code. We would not, nor will not, make such a claim.
- Darl Mcbride
Linux doesn't have IP roots. - Darl Mcbride
Linux doesn't have IP roots.
We counted over a million lines of code that we allege are infringed in the Linux kernel today. - Darl Mcbride
We counted over a million lines of code that we allege are infringed in the Linux kernel today.
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… - Darl Mcbride
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…
IBM has taken our valuable trade secrets and given them away to Linux. - Darl Mcbride
IBM has taken our valuable trade secrets and given them away to Linux.
At the end of the day, the GPL is not about making software free; it's about destroying value. - Darl Mcbride
At the end of the day, the GPL is not about making software free; it's about destroying value.
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++. - Darl Mcbride
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++.
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… - Darl Mcbride
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… - Darl Mcbride
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…
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