"Linus Torvalds capped an hour of debate over the
future of Linux by dismissing the threat posed by Microsoft's
Hailstorm caper.
A panel composed of Dirk Hohndel, Brian Behlendorf, Larry
Augustin, Torvalds and Sheffield's finest, Jeremy Allison, was
agonising over the future of the great open source adventure.
When the subject of Microsoft's .NET arose, a tanned Torvalds
(he obviously hasn't spent the summer in San Francisco, but
somewhere warmer... like Greenland) dismissed fears that users
should be worried about the centralised control implicit in
Hailstorm."