Darl McBride Quotes
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We're not talking about insignificant amounts of code. It's substantial System V code showing up in Linux.
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The business model of Linux distribution is broken; it's like the business model of the dotcoms. Running your company on Linux is like running your company on Napster.
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When we take a top-tier view of the amount of code showing up inside of Linux today that is either directly related to our Unix System 5 that we directly own or is related to one of our flavors of Unix that we have derivative works rights over--we don't necessarily own those flavors, but we have control rights over how that information gets disseminated--the amount is substantial. We're not talking about just lines of code; we're talking about entire programs. We're talking about hundred [sic] of thousands of lines of code.
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We counted over a million lines of code that we allege are infringed in the Linux kernel today.
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Mark my words, there will be a day that will come when you will all see many, many documents that will directly contradict IBM's current public posturing.
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IBM has taken our valuable trade secrets and given them away to Linux.
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Linux doesn't have IP roots.
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I've been pounding the table here for a year or so saying there's no free lunch, and there is going to be a day of reckoning for every company that thinks they are going to try and sell a free model.
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At the end of the day, the GPL is not about making software free; it's about destroying value.
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Obviously Linux owes its heritage to UNIX, but not its code. We would not, nor will not, make such a claim.
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And C++ programming languages, we own those, have licensed them out multiple times, obviously. We have a lot of royalties coming to us from C++.