[OT] Linus Torvalds delays Linux 3.0 launch due to a subtle bug

[Ernest Doub]

On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 12:53 PM, Jordon Bedwell <jordon at envygeeks.com>wrote:

> On 07/20/2011 02:30 PM, Ernest Doub wrote:
> > More likely, based on this quote, that they would have to dump their
> entire
> > driver and start over again from scratch.
>
> It's counterproductive to to dump your driver when your initial goal
> needs to be to support Linux too or just have a big money product die.
> It would be like if KVM decided to never support Windows or even attempt
> to support Windows, in some way.  It just wouldn't have been as
> successful as it was IMO because even I (as a sysadmin) know that some
> of my clients will want virtualised Windows somewhere, sometime as
> Microsoft knows that even they will eventually have clients who will
> need to virtualise Linux too, actually last I heard that was the biggest
> complaint about Microsoft virtualisation.
>
> > Microsoft has finally been busted for using ideas/code developed by
> somebody
> > else and claiming as their own proprietary work.
>
> And so have lots of other companies, like Cisco and Cisco subsidiaries,
> IBM has been caught patenting somebody else's software ideas (from
> almost a decade earlier) too, just to have the USPTO find the prior-art
> and go ahead and give IBM the patent.  So it's ignorant to solely focus
> on just Microsoft as if they are the root of the worlds evil.
> Especially considering how old IBM is...  Hell, if I remember right it
> was Linksys who switched from micro Linux on the WRT54G to other
> firmware to avoid releasing their router firmware as required under the
> GPL just to eventually release it because of surrounding legal pressure.
>  I don't know if they moved back to Linux and GPL tools but I do
> remember that whole fiasco kinda.
>
> I'm no fan of Microsoft, ask anybody who has ever talked to me, but when
> ignorance starts to shine over reality, somebody has to speak up and
> mention that it's not just Microsoft doing this.
>
>
No it isn't just Microsoft.
Microsoft is just guilty of the most self righteous chest beating.  What
goes around eventually comes around if you wait long enough.

ED

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