Linux Business Week Exclusive: Linux Kernel To Be Re-Written To Counter Microsoft FUD
Maureen O'Gara writes: 'IBM, Intel, the Open Source Development Labs, and other industry lights are supposedly planning to announce that a consortium has been created that will rewrite the components in the Linux kernel that, it has been alleged, tread on other people's IP - or at least the 27 Microsoft patents that Linux supposedly infringes.' The aim? To rob Microsoft of the ability to scare customers off of Linux by saying that the operating system is a patent infringer, informed sources say. O'Gara adds that 'Operation Open Gates' as they are calling it is reportedly going to be unveiled on January 25.
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#49
Denis Robert commented on 10 Feb 2005
Why hasn't O'Gara been fired yet??? I don't get it: When someone repeatedly invents "news" reports in a respectable news organization, they usually get fired, don't they? O'Gara's imagination is running wild these day, and SYS-CON's insistence on publishing her ramblings puts them in the same league as FOX"News".
#48
MG commented on 28 Jan 2005
Michael,
You are a bit wrong. The announcement was made and it was just as ODSL claimed it was. It is a new lab for open source development; including help with coding, testing and other bells and whistles. It is a "seed" lab to help developers and the open source community to develop products that are able to work within the guidelines of GPL. They will also help them develop market strategies and processes that works hand in hand with GPL and the spirit of open source while allowing them to build a viable business.
You are right about everything else though. She did cry "wolf" and I personally feel she knew exactly what she was doing; thus the silence.
This should be a sign to all the MOG supporters that she is not always on the up and up. I’m not going to claim she has an agenda, though that may be true. I can’t because I really don’t know for sure except the evidence seems to build that she does. You see, I did not ask “unnamed resources”. I didn’t talk to the “people in the know”. I rather have verifiable answers from real sources, with real names and faces. It simply amazes me that people follow her words blindly like lemmings. Do you own research people! One site and one writer do not make its news indisputable.
#47
Michael commented on 28 Jan 2005
Hey, the deadline for "open gates" has passed and still no announcement, Maureen. Time for a retraction, yet? Time to admit you were had? Time to get off your butt and actually research articles instead of regurgitating press releases? No, I didn't think so. Move on, nothing to see here.
#46
Well commented on 21 Jan 2005
Maureen reports the story but I am waiting for "more news" form the "Utah Court" today, that would be real interesting to see!
I wonder how people will interpret the news which did not come out yet.
#45
AllEars commented on 21 Jan 2005
So what will MOG today tell us about the SCO v IBM decision yesterday? The federal magistrate has handed a partial victory SCO surely? I do hope there won't be any gloating from Maureen.
#44
JRB commented on 20 Jan 2005
First off, As long as Linux has been here, the chances of it infringing upon others IP, is very unlikely, to do this from my understanding they must find complete reproduction of thier coding. To just toss a patent up and then go back hunting through code tha is similar to it is absurd. Any judge with good sense should release the patent and place it with Linus and in doing so, really breaking this streak of BS going on now, they have been shown time and again that it was his own code.
The only reason I see for them wanting to rewrite is for thier own personal chance of putting in code that "They" might be able to claim patent on as well. This OS is one of the best for one reason and one only because it is open to all. Rahter then rewite I personally would attempt to counter and claim first creation and then turn back and let them be the ones pleading for mercy.
#43
anal commented on 20 Jan 2005
poor BG, seems to be visiting us from another planet, as do a number of other Anti-linux morons.
As a supposidly intellegent race, we seem to specialize in shooting our self in the foot.
Again & again & again!!
#42
BG commented on 20 Jan 2005
My email to Maureen,
Dear Maureen,
As usual, you have gotten to the folks behind the scenes at OSDL and found out Linux is getting rewritten to evade
patent infringement claims and to remove the stolen SCO
intellectual property that's riddled all through Linux. I realize these communists are screaming as loud as they can, but you are doing a good thing pointing out that open source really does steal otehr peoples property.
I salute your courage and candor in having the backbone to report the truth about Linux to the world.
#41
Rodd Ahrenstorff commented on 20 Jan 2005
My email to Maureen:
As a faithful reader and subscriber to sys-con publications, I would certainly appreciate a published explanation regarding the story linked below. Based on recent published accounts from those very parties mentioned in the story, your original work is part fabrication or at least based on false information from "informed sources". It would appear no further research went into the details of this article on your behalf.
Maureen, this really undermines your readers faith in you, as an unbiased IT analyst, and further erodes the reputation of LBW and sys-con in general. Please either retract this original story or publish an explanation for the factual discrepancies. People can fogive mistakes when made, but delaying a public reply is only asking for more trouble. I'll be waiting...
Thanks for your time,
(signed)
#40
Jackie Smith commented on 20 Jan 2005
Reading the Ads is much more useful than the O'Gara's smelly garbage! O'Gara is the secret weapon of the LBW's competition - let's get rid of her - once and forever...
If I were O'Gara I would resign voluntarily after so much negative response from the LBW's readers.
#39
Michael commented on 19 Jan 2005
It's simple, really. If O'Gara's subject in an article is Linux, 90%+ will be outright lies and fabrications. The woman absolutely despises Linux and open source, and feels like anything is justified in the effort to slow its progress. That she writes for the unquestionably anti-Linux yellowsheet called "Linux Business Week" is sort of poetic.
#38
JD commented on 18 Jan 2005
April Fool! Oh, it's not April 1st. I guess the jokes is on you then.
#37
Fewclues commented on 18 Jan 2005
Stop and realize how most of us hate Microsoft's tactics, and some actually hate Bill Gates and some just hate Windows. Well add all that together and then stand in front of a mirror and you have MOG's feeling about Linux. She is a clever author of a lot of fiction that gets some bad rumors to rumbling. I say she's had all of us!
#36
Michael commented on 18 Jan 2005
OSDL denies that there is any truth in this story. Someone is lying. My money is on OSDL as the truthful one.
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