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Who owns linux ?

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Stryker:
I agree, it is open. But still owned. Glad you got your answer.

flap:

quote:In 1991 Finnish college student Linus Torvalds created an operating system
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No he didn't. He created a kernel.

And if "Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind" then that man was Stallman, not Torvalds.

mushrooomprince:
That document that you have stryker is a GPL. It means that the code is under the GNU GPL liscence, that means that the code is open source and free, and anybody else can use it. If you use it though, you have to make the parts of your program that use the open code also open source

flap:
No, you have to distribute your *entire program* under the same licence, not just the parts that use GPL code.

Stryker:

quote:Originally posted by mushrooomprince:
That document that you have stryker is a GPL. It means that the code is under the GNU GPL liscence, that means that the code is open source and free, and anybody else can use it. If you use it though, you have to make the parts of your program that use the open code also open source
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you act like i dont know that, i've never argued that... i'm just saying that linux is owned.

(we had a debate earlier about wether or not linux was owned or not)

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