Zed Shaw: Why I (A/L)GPL

Re:Zed Shaw: Why I (A/L)GPL by e4m on Tuesday July 14, 2009 @08:53AM (#703567)

"If, for example, I laid down some pretty useful code and open sourced it - then a startup came along, used it to bootleg their code and made millions I'd be pretty upset."

I wonder if Linus is upset with RedHat?

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Re:Zed Shaw: Why I (A/L)GPL by ErrantX on Tuesday July 14, 2009 @09:32AM (#703620)

red hat contributes to kernel development ;)

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Re:Zed Shaw: Why I (A/L)GPL by loumf on Tuesday July 14, 2009 @03:11PM (#704379)

Red Hat gave away a lot of shares to Linux/Unix contributors. Here's an article from Eric Raymond about shares he got from VA Linux, but it mentions Red Hat doing this as well http://www.linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=1999-12-10-00...

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Re:Zed Shaw: Why I (A/L)GPL by gaius on Wednesday July 15, 2009 @08:11AM (#705543)

That is actually an article about what a tossbag ESR is.

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Re:Zed Shaw: Why I (A/L)GPL by codemonkey on Tuesday July 14, 2009 @01:39PM (#704173)

RedHat also gave him some fat stock options, just to say thanks.

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