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Wall Street becoming Linux stronghold
Jun 13, 2008, 12 :00 UTC (5 Talkback[s]) (5731 reads)

(Other stories by Ellen Messmer)

""There's a great fear sometimes, that if I use open source, will I lose my intellectual property?" acknowledged Novell's Levy. Other panelists Randy Hergett, director of engineering for the Open Source and Linux Organizations at HP, and Marcus Rex, CTO at the Linux Foundation, sought to assuage those fears.

"The current license for Linux requires you give back any changes you make to the open source community, but there's no way anyone can require those assurances and there's no way we'd know," Rex said."

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  Talkback(s) Name  and Date
First, Linux is the kernel, not the enti ...   Misconceptions.   
Rainer Weikusat
Jun 13, 2008, 13:18:00
 
This is old news.In 2000, when I was doi ...   Linux on Wall Street   
Bob_Robertson
Jun 13, 2008, 14:51:57
 
...But even as the Wall Street crowd inc ...   That makes no sense.   
Brandioch Conner
Jun 13, 2008, 15:41:44
 
> #1. No, it does not. The GPL only requ ...   Re: That makes no sense.   
philc
Jun 14, 2008, 01:59:46
 
The only conclusion that I can draw from ...   Novell makes no sense   
Michael Tiemann
Jun 16, 2008, 11:49:51
 
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