Anonymous
ID: xXBtxD31
8/3/2025, 9:16:33 AM No.512101902
1) It is 1993.
2) Linus Torvalds wants programmers because he cannot steal from the Minix Source code anymore.
3) He does not want to pay them.
4) He wants them to work for free.
5) This doesn't work.
6) He comes up with a scheme
7) "Hey lets work together, you'll get fame, we'll both get a unix OS on i386, people will honour your code contributions".
8) Hackers suddenly code for Linus.
9) "Also we will sue anyone who violates the GPL"
10) "I expect all changes to come back to me"
11) More hackers work for linus.
There is an agreement there:
In exchange for labour and access to hackers copyrighted works and use thereof:
Linus agrees to
1) give the hackers fame
2) make a unix OS that runs on i386
3) honour the hackers who wrote the code.
Linus additionally agrees to
4) Sue anyone who violates the copyright on the hackers code, probably as a Joint action
5) Require licensees to send him copies of their changes, eventually, somehow (yes this isn't in the GPL: but he stated it on video, and that is what people understood)
Removing hackers contributions violates 1 and 3 of the contract.
Not suing Grsecurity/PaX violates 4 and 5.
Which is what most of the hackers worked under.
It is all documented on the LKML emails and videos from slashdot.
2) Linus Torvalds wants programmers because he cannot steal from the Minix Source code anymore.
3) He does not want to pay them.
4) He wants them to work for free.
5) This doesn't work.
6) He comes up with a scheme
7) "Hey lets work together, you'll get fame, we'll both get a unix OS on i386, people will honour your code contributions".
8) Hackers suddenly code for Linus.
9) "Also we will sue anyone who violates the GPL"
10) "I expect all changes to come back to me"
11) More hackers work for linus.
There is an agreement there:
In exchange for labour and access to hackers copyrighted works and use thereof:
Linus agrees to
1) give the hackers fame
2) make a unix OS that runs on i386
3) honour the hackers who wrote the code.
Linus additionally agrees to
4) Sue anyone who violates the copyright on the hackers code, probably as a Joint action
5) Require licensees to send him copies of their changes, eventually, somehow (yes this isn't in the GPL: but he stated it on video, and that is what people understood)
Removing hackers contributions violates 1 and 3 of the contract.
Not suing Grsecurity/PaX violates 4 and 5.
Which is what most of the hackers worked under.
It is all documented on the LKML emails and videos from slashdot.
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