> Sometimes people take subsets of those patches, clean them up and get them put into the kernel, which is the source of GRS's accusations of "stealing". This

> Sometimes people take subsets of those patches, clean them up and get them put into the kernel, which is the source of GRS's accusations of "stealing". This is insane. If their argument had any legal merit, it is because of a bug in gpl and we should patch it. Just based on the accusation of theft, without knowing anything else about them or anything else, I can safely say they're scum bags and no I don't have a Fields medal but I don't retract it. I do think Linus should have adopted "or later" a long time ago but that's a different discussion.