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"If, for example, I laid down some pretty useful code and open sourced it - then a startup came along, used it to bootleg their code and made millions I'd be pr
by e4m 17y ago
"If, for example, I laid down some pretty useful code and open sourced it - then a startup came along, used it to bootleg their code and made millions I'd be pretty upset."
I wonder if Linus is upset with RedHat?
- ErrantX 17y agored hat contributes to kernel development ;)
- codemonkey 17y agoRedHat also gave him some fat stock options, just to say thanks.
- loumf 17y agoRed Hat gave away a lot of shares to Linux/Unix contributors. Here's an article from Eric Raymond about shares he got from VA Linux, but it mentions Red Hat doing this as well http://www.linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=1999-12-10-001-05-NW-LF http://www.linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=1999-12-10-00...
- gaius 17y agoThat is actually an article about what a tossbag ESR is.