Linked by David Adams on Mon 21st Jul 2008 14:44 UTC, submitted by Moulinneuf
Linus Torvalds is remarkable, not only for being the technical genius who wrote Linux, but for then being able to inspire and lead an enormous team of people to devote their free time to work on the operating system and bring it to maturity. We sent Richard Morris off to interview Linus, and find out more.
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2005-07-08
Perhaps in a way you might be partly right... (although I haven't seen another new Torvalds interview online for at least a month..
"patents are very much used to stop competition, which is undeniably the most powerful way to encourage innovation. Anybody who argues for patents is basically arguing against open markets and competition, but they never put it in those terms.
It's also distressing to see that people patent ideas. It's not even a working 'thing'; it's just a small way of doing things that you try to patent, just to have a weapon in an economic fight. Sad. Patents have lost all redeeming value, if they ever had any."
Edited 2008-07-22 08:18 UTC