[ Thanks to Jeff
Smelser for this link. ]
“Linus Torvalds, the founder and lead developer of the Linux
open-source operating system, has some strong views about the legal
dispute between The SCO Group and IBM, which he shared with eWEEK
Senior Editor Peter Galli in an e-mail exchange last week. Torvalds
also last week announced he was taking a leave of absence from
Transmeta Corp. and becoming the first full-time fellow at the Open
Source Development Lab, where he will continue to drive the next
version of the Linux kernel, 2.6, due later this summer.“Do you expect anything to change now that you are
working for the OSDL in terms of your focus around
Linux?“I don’t foresee any particular changes. That said, I remember
when I first joined Transmeta, and some issues Transmeta ended up
having with SMP ended up being how I started getting into Linux SMP
[symmetric multiprocessing] development–not because Transmeta
asked me to per se, but because the situation was just different
enough from my situation in Helsinki that my priorities shifted. In
other words, we’re all creatures of our environment, and in that
sense any change will obviously reflect some way in what I
do…”