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Re: Where are Microsoft's 20,000 lines of "cancer"?

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____/ Homer on Thursday 06 August 2009 21:19 : \____

> Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
>> ____/ Homer on Thursday 06 August 2009 17:46 : \____
>>> Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
>>>> ____/ Homer on Wednesday 05 August 2009 04:27 : \____
> 
>>>>> I could do this once once a week, and call it "Reverse Patch
>>>>> Tuesday" :)
>>>> 
>>>> Novell has enough employees like gregkh to reverse your reversal.
>>> 
>>> ???
>> 
>> Greg ushered this patch into linux-staging. He works for Novell and
>> it's part of the patent deal with Microsoft (optimising Linux to work
>> under Windows).
>> 
>> Novell has a lot influence in the LF (including Rex, the former CTO).
> 
> What I mean is, how would gregkh, or anyone else, prevent people from
> using a de-Vole'd kernel? No one has to use either his patches or mine.
> 
> It's like Alexandre Oliva's linux-libre. Red Hat won't use it (indeed
> some of their engineers seem to have a quite violent opposition to it),
> but equally they can't somehow "un-libre" it for those who do, either.

I was thinking about the trunk. It's there to stay under /usr/progra~1/.

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