Hee hee! And I couldn't even tell you at the time. But yes, Linus... you were dead exactly right. Well done. :) --g ------------------------------------------------------------- Greg DeKoenigsberg || Fedora Project || fedoraproject.org Be an Ambassador || http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors ------------------------------------------------------------- On Sun, 26 Mar 2006, Linus Walleij wrote: > Looking back at the recently announced OIN initiative, in retrospect, what > I claimed was NotTrue(TM) proved to be TheTruth(TM), down to the > individual company names. This was an educated guess (really, Greg I hope > you didn't fall over each other trying to figure out how this guy in > Sweden could know what you were doing) so if anyone is looking for an OS > business analyst... :-) > > (OIN, Greg spills the beans on Mono: http://gregdek.livejournal.com/4008.html) > > Linus > > On Tue, 24 Jan 2006, Linus Walleij wrote: > > > On Tue, 24 Jan 2006, Greg DeKoenigsberg wrote: > > > >> If and when I can say more, I assure you that I will. > > > > Cool now you sound like a federal comission :-) > > > > That statement alone indeed confirms that it is a hot potato. > > > > In absence of statements we can happily start speculating which will in turn > > generate rumors. Here is my first RockingSpeculation(TM) which is certainly > > NotTrue(TM): RedHat has struck a deal of sorts with /insert big company name > > here/ that their lawyers shall go after Microsoft for all their patents they > > break in case Microsoft sue Red Hat or the Fedora foundation for any patent > > infringements. > > > > /big company/ could be for example Novell since they sort of make Mono, or > > could even be IBM. Both hold many patents dangerous to Microsoft. > > > > Linus > > > > -- > > fedora-extras-list mailing list > > fedora-extras-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-extras-list > > > > -- > fedora-extras-list mailing list > fedora-extras-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-extras-list > -- fedora-extras-list mailing list fedora-extras-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-extras-list
