Linus at Fermi National Laboratory

[Stephen Adler]

It was a wonderful time during the coming of age for the free software 
movement. Unfortunately, I feel its a bit to corporate right now, 
especially with the bid for Novel from Elliot Associates.

Here is a thought. The hedge fund has this plan.

1) Buy Novel
2) Dump everything from Novel that is not Linux.
3) Start suing everyone in sight, a la SCO. - They have paten protection 
from MS.

Doesn't Novel "own" some part of the unix copyright?

On 03/03/2010 04:45 PM, Brendan Kidwell wrote:
> Thanks for preserving and sharing. Looks like an interesting bit of 
> history.
>
> On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 10:24 PM, Stephen Adler <adler-wRvlPVLobi1/31tCrMuHxg at public.gmane.org 
> <mailto:adler-wRvlPVLobi1/31tCrMuHxg at public.gmane.org>> wrote:
>
>     Back in the spring of 1999, Linus gave a talk at Fermi National
>     Laboratory. ... For those of you interested in a bit of
>     Linux history check out...
>
>     http://stephenadler.org/tiki-index.php?page=Linus+at+FNAL+-+Spring+Comdex+1999+-+Linux+Global+Summit
>