Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 23rd Jul 2009 22:53 UTC, submitted by Remy Chi Jian Suen
So, Microsoft submits 20000 lines of code to the Linux kernel, all licensed under the GPL. Microsoft, who considers Linux a great threat, and once called the GPL a "cancer". Opinions on this one are flying all around us, but what does Linus Torvalds, Linux' benevolent dictator, think about all this?
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2005-07-22
Precisely so.
GNU/Linux is IP. It is copyright code just as much as Windows is copyright code.
Ergo, writing new code for GNU/Linux cannot, by definition, be an act of destroying IP. "
Yes, what it is really doing is destroying an 'Intellectual Monopoly', which isn't quite the same thing as destroying 'Intellectual Property'.