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Torvalds: Put Linux to the test
March 30, 2005 Linus Torvalds calls for more regular performance tests on the Linux kernel in hunt for inefficient code.Torvalds attacks IT industry 'security circus'
July 17, 2008 Linux creator calls OpenBSD crowd a bunch of "monkeys" and criticizes those who publicize security flaws to gain notoriety.Update to Linux kernel debuts after 'false alarms'
November 2, 2005 Latest version of OS is out, almost a month overdue. Still, Linus Torvalds sees improvements "all over the place."Torvalds weighs in on Linux trademark row
August 22, 2005 Linux founder defends protection of the trademark and insists that sublicensing is a loss-making operation.Torvalds switches to Apple
March 9, 2005 Linux figure says his main desktop is no longer an x86 machine. He wanted to "check out the other side."Torvalds says DRM isn't necessarily bad
February 3, 2006 'We are not crusaders,' declares the Linux kernel leader in a debate over proposed open-source license changes.Torvalds: No GPL 3 for Linux
January 26, 2006 Linus Torvalds rejects the planned update to the seminal open-source license, citing its DRM provisions.Torvalds: 'Hot air' in debates on GPL, content control
January 16, 2007 Both DRM technology and GPL 3 will cause a lot of arguments, the man behind Linux says. But in the end, good technology will prevail.Torvalds gets tough on kernel coders
November 12, 2005 If developers add "last-minute things" to the next version of the Linux kernel, he says he will "laugh in their faces derisively."Torvalds unveils new Linux control system
April 20, 2005 Linux founder launches "Git," a new tool for managing the operating system's heart. A dispute had led him to drop the previous system.Torvalds asked to step into Linux trademark fight
August 11, 2004 Open-source operating system's inventor works to prevent hijacking of Linux name--a battle he won years ago in the United States.An open question on open source
June 13, 2007 Can Linus Torvalds and Sun's Jonathan Schwartz find common ground on Linux and OpenSolaris?Torvalds critical of new GPL draft
July 28, 2006 Linux leader maintains his objections to provisions against digital rights managment.Open source's patent spat
November 23, 2004 roundup Linus Torvalds and other luminaries call EU patent proposal "deceptive, dangerous." Also: Eye on the big ticket.Bid to trademark the word 'Linux' rejected
September 16, 2005 Australian government turns down the bid, but the group that had pushed the effort claims partial victory anyway.OSDL hires lawyer, opens China office
August 27, 2004 The lab home of Linux founder Linus Torvalds hires an intellectual-property attorney and says hello to Beijing.Open-source honchos trash software patents
February 2, 2005 "Software patents are clearly a problem," Linux founder Linus Torvalds says at the OSDL Linux Summit.New GPL draft has olive branches, thorns
March 29, 2007 Third draft of GPL version 3 eases some concerns, raises issues for Novell, and shows the Free Software Foundation is listening.Torvalds talks like a pirate
September 21, 2006 Aaaar! Linux leader uses salty sea-dog language to introduce 2.6.18 update to the kernel of the open-source OS.Torvalds: A Solaris skeptic
December 21, 2004 The Linux leader calls the rival open-source operating system from Sun Microsystems a "joke."
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