CRN: CRN Interview: Linus Torvalds
[ Thanks to jig for
this link. ]
“Linux creator Linus Torvalds defended the integrity of Linux
intellectual property in an interview with CRN Editor Heather
Clancy and Editor/News Steven Burke at CA the World conference.
Torvalds–who recently left Transmeta to work on Linux full time at
the Open Source Development Lab–talks about Read Copy Update code,
copyright protection and SCO during the half-hour interview.“CRN: How has the SCO-IBM lawsuit affected
Linux?“Torvalds: The biggest effect by far has just
been a lot of time wasted on discussion. Obviously there have been
a lot of people worried. But it hasn’t actually affected [Linux] in
any real sense. Part of the reason is that it hasn’t affected it in
any real sense is the way we have done development, because it has
been so open, there has always been a very real electronic trail of
exactly how everything came into the kernel from which source and
stuff like that…”
InfoWorld: Interview: Torvalds Gets Down to the Kernel
“InfoWorld: How difficult a development effort was
Version 2.6 compared with previous efforts? Are they getting
increasingly difficult as you include more complex
features?“Torvalds: This was fairly comparable to
Version 2.4. It is hard to tell, really. I actually put out the
first test release on Sunday evening [July 13], and that is the
last beta of the program. With 2.4, that testing took about six or
seven months to complete. But I think we are actually in better
shape this time; we are aiming for three months but we will see
what happens. It has gotten slightly more complicated, mainly
because there are now more people involved. And what I mean is that
doing a release always means synchronizing. And when you have more
people to synchronize it takes longer because you get more issues
that come up. But on the whole it was not that different from
2.4…”