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Linus has an open view (The West Australian)

[Posted January 28, 2003 by ris]

This year Linus went to Linux.conf.au instead of LinuxWorld. While there he spent some time talking with the press. Here is an interview with Linus in The West Australian. "Mr Torvalds appears to find Microsoft's angst over open source, and Linux in particular, more amusing than troubling overall. But he warns the battle could get serious."

You can find another interview in AustralianIT. Thanks to Leon Brooks

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Posted Jan 28, 2003 20:57 UTC (Tue) by chohman (guest, #5519) [Link]

Sigh... Yet another journalist who doesn't understand that GPLed code IS copyrighted (or copylefted, if you will).

And he misstates Linus' contribution, too

Posted Feb 7, 2003 1:24 UTC (Fri) by giraffedata (subscriber, #1954) [Link]

Not only that, it's yet another journalist that thinks that Linus wrote the operating system known as Linux. ("...wrote an operating system and set it free..."). Linus wrote the last piece of an operating system already 95% complete, and was free because of the hard work and vision of others. He also coined the name. That's a lot different from writing an entire operating system and pioneering free software.