Although I said it is all right for any one to own MSFT even lefties but isn't it somewhat of an oxymoron for these people who despise the capitalistic methods of MSFT to sully themselves with the ownership of such shares.
Regarding the trial perhaps MSFT should have called Torvald to the stand:
Linux inventor talks about the upcoming 3.0 kernel, which software he runs, and why Microsoft (eventually) will hop on the bandwagon.
by Elinor Mills Abreu, IDG News Service
June 18, 1999, 9:35 a.m. PT
SANTA CLARA, CALIFORNIA -- Two years ago the open-source revolution was a mere glimmer in the eyes of some devoted Linux developers. Today, companies that previously snubbed the freely distributed and freely modified operating system are proudly announcing Linux ports and strategies to open up their own code.
The man behind Linux, 29-year-old Linus Torvalds, became a programmer early in life. Eight years after releasing Linux, Torvalds is still in the trenches, and he has been working at secretive Transmeta here for the past two years. Over a Mexican food lunch, Torvalds talked with IDG News Service about the open-source revolution.
IDG: What is Linux's road map for the future?
Torvalds: There's never really been a road map. In the sense that the Linux user base has been changing fairly rapidly, making a five-year plan just would not work. A year ago the main user for this was still on a kind of technical workstation, a small-scale Web server. And suddenly the enterprise-like large-scale computing came ... So we're moving on to doing better and better things and it's not really planned. It's more of a reaction to what people need.
IDG: How many Linux users are there?
Torvalds: I have no idea. Nobody really counts. There's been a number of guesses ... but the user base seems to be around 10 million-plus.
To hear him talk MSFT has plenty of competition on their hands.
Now why would Torvald want the evil empire to jump on the Linux bandwagon?
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