Quotes of the week [LWN.net]

Quotes of the week

Posted Oct 21, 2004 11:27 UTC (Thu) by jcm (subscriber, #18262)
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``Sorry, couldn't resist; we'll stop now.''

Jeff Merkey is plain amusing and clearly a particularly unsubtle puppet for several anti-Linux commercial interests. I freely admit that my baiting on the lkml is purely designed to see what he'll come out with next. He's likely suffering from other delusions and definately is paranoid too - as the comments on Novell show. The comments about RCU and similar show that he's got little current knowledge on kernel design techniques, and I enjoy his willingness to rewrite the whole thing ;-)

But he's not the only nut out there. This week we've also had the pleasure of a host of comments from Richard B. Johnson that suggest a potential marketting opportunity for tinfoil manufacturers around the world. Apparently Linux is destroying itself and the GPL is a tool of the evil RMS backed by the Free Software Foundation - check out his posts.

On a serious note, I was glad that Novell did subsequently at least say something about the use of their patent portfolio and their involvement with Linux, even if it's completely vague and lacking in any substance at this stage. That's typical of big business lawyerese. Hopefully they'll fix that in due course because until they do, their motives are still open to questioning.

Jon.

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Posted Oct 21, 2004 17:32 UTC (Thu) by bjn (guest, #2179) [Link] (2 responses)

This week we've also had the pleasure of a host of comments from Richard B. Johnson that suggest a potential marketting opportunity for tinfoil manufacturers around the world. Apparently Linux is destroying itself and the GPL is a tool of the evil RMS backed by the Free Software Foundation - check out his posts.

Found several posts by "Richard B. Johnson" (signed "Dick Johnson") but none that looked like that. Got links?

Quotes of the week

Posted Oct 21, 2004 22:49 UTC (Thu) by hppnq (guest, #14462) [Link] (1 responses)

Take it from here.

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Posted Oct 22, 2004 3:55 UTC (Fri) by planet12 (guest, #4199) [Link]

As scary as it is, I actually agree with him that the issue of signed modules needs to be handled carefully.

My immediate thought was "this would be great for stopping kernel module rootkits", and my second thought was along the lines of a post on that thread - "How am I going to feel if I'm on the wrong end of a system that has a read-only kernel".

Having full kernel source and the public side of the key isn't going to help you a bit here.

Hmm... I think I consider this "Dual Use" technology.