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Sun Supper Offer Appeals to Torvalds

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Stephen Shankland
Jun 14, 2007

“In the latest word in a peculiarly public interchange, Linux
leader Linus Torvalds appears inclined to take up Sun Microsystems
Chief Executive Jonathan Schwartz on his offer for dinner.

“Last weekend, Torvalds expressed some ‘cynical’ thoughts about
Sun’s intentions regarding its open-source Solaris operating
system, which in turn led Schwartz to invite Torvalds to dinner to
demonstrate Sun’s intention of being a team player in the
open-source realm, not a parasite…”

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