Tag: linux
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Linux Stops Reverting Most University of Minnesota Patches, Admits Good Faith
LWN has a very good chance of replacing what has been lost as a result of the discovery of University of Minnesota researchers intentionally inserting buggy code into the Linux kernel: The writing of a paper in this research [PDF] is now no longer the instant reason for the current events; instead, it has become…
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Torvalds: GPLv2 ‘A Big Part’ of Why Linux Spread, Companies Getting Involved ‘Hugely Important’
Five years ago, Linus Torvalds celebrated Linux’s 25th anniversary during an interview with ZDNet’s Steven Vaughan-Nichols. In the present, as Linux has celebrated its thirty-year anniversary Vaughan-Nichols interviewed Torvalds a second time and made a crucial philosophy-based point: Looking at the larger picture, Torvalds is now of the opinion that the time that began in…