Darl McBride Quotes

#1. IBM has taken our valuable trade secrets and given them away to Linux.

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#2. We counted over a million lines of code that we allege are infringed in the Linux kernel today.

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#3. At the end of the day, the GPL is not about making software free; it's about destroying value.

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#4. 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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#5. 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++.

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#6. 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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#7. 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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#8. 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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#9. Linux doesn't have IP roots.

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#10. We're not talking about insignificant amounts of code. It's substantial System V code showing up in Linux.

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