https://lwn.net/Articles/21260/ This is a special feed containing comments posted to the individual LWN article titled "Linus has an open view (The West Australian)". en-us Thu, 18 Sep 2025 23:43:08 +0000 Thu, 18 Sep 2025 23:43:08 +0000 https://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification lwn@lwn.net https://lwn.net/Articles/22140/ https://lwn.net/Articles/22140/ giraffedata Not only that, it's yet another journalist that thinks that Linus wrote the operating system known as Linux. (&quot;...wrote an operating system and set it free...&quot;). 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.<br> Fri, 07 Feb 2003 01:24:15 +0000 https://lwn.net/Articles/21278/ https://lwn.net/Articles/21278/ chohman Sigh... Yet another journalist who doesn't understand that GPLed code IS copyrighted (or copylefted, if you will). Tue, 28 Jan 2003 20:57:06 +0000