Hmm...
Something very interesting is going on in the open-source
political arena. Seems like Andrew Tridgell of Samba fame has tried to
reverse-engineer BitKeeper(the SCM tool used to develop the Linux
kernel) metadata. Linus told about this to his friend and CEO of
BitKeeper Larry McVoy. Larry got worried and tried to stop Andrew
Tridgell from doing so, citing IP reasons. What followed is a brewing
controversy which can have pretty heavy repurcussions for open-source
software. Tridgell cannot defent himself as he's adviced not to by his
lawyers. Read all about it:
http://os.newsforge.com/os/05/04/11/118211.shtml?tid=2&tid=25&tid=3
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/04/14/torvalds_attacks_tridgell/
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/04/11/torvalds_attack/
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/04/15/perens_on_torvalds/
And finally, Linus' own words:
http://www.realworldtech.com/forums/index.cfm?action=detail&PostNum=3322&Thread=2&entryID=49312&roomID=11
Regards,
Vamsee.
