[delgadoii]

well we all know who Linus Torvalds is .. and for those who don't know who hes is... here is a little insight...



Torvalds originally used the Minix OS on his system which he replaced by his own OS; he gave a working name of Linux (Linus' Minix); but thought the name to be too egotistical and planned to have it named Freax (a combination of "free", "freak", and the letter X to indicate a Unix-like system). His friend Ari Lemmke encouraged Torvalds to upload it to a network so it could be easily downloaded. Ari, however, not happy with the Freax name, gave Torvalds a directory called linux on his FTP server.

Torvalds owns the "Linux" trademark, and monitors use (or abuse) of it chiefly through the non-profit organization Linux International. Needless to say, 'many eyeballs make trademark abuse difficult'; he gets help on this from the entire worldwide Linux community. Due to the Open Source philosophy, Torvalds used to dislike the fact that Linux is a trademark. However, in 1995, he had to adopt the trademark, because some other man had registered Linux himself and threatened to blackmail Torvalds.
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Here is where it gets weird!!.. read this...

http://www.theregister.com/2005/04/11/torvalds_attack

dunno y he's thinking this way but it sound Hypocritical to me... what do you guys think???..

cheers

[Bramhastra]

I think thats very diplomatic.