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CRN Interview: Linus Torvalds


Publication:	CRN	Date:	Jul 16 2003

Linux creator Linus Torvalds defended the integrity of Linux intellectual property in an interview with CRN Editor Heather Clancy and Editor/News Steven Burke at CA the World conference. Torvalds--who recently left Transmeta to work on Linux full time at the Open Source Development Lab--talks about Read Copy Update code, copyright protection and SCO during the half-hour interview .

CRN: How has the SCO-IBM lawsuit affected Linux?

Torvalds: The biggest effect by far has just been a lot of time wasted on discussion. Obviously there have been a lot of people worried. But it hasn't actually affected [Linux] in any real sense. Part of the reason is that it hasn't affected it in any real sense is the way we have done development, because it has been so open, there has always been a very real electronic trail of exactly how everything came into the kernel from which source and stuff like that.