At the end of the day, the GPL is not about making software free; it's about destroying value. — Darl McBride Copy Share Image
Obviously Linux owes its heritage to UNIX, but not its code. We would not, nor will not, make such a claim. — Darl McBride Copy Share Image
IBM has taken our valuable trade secrets and given them away to Linux. — Darl McBride Copy Share Image
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… — Darl McBride Copy Share
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… — Darl McBride Copy Share Image
At the end of the day, the GPL is not about making software free; it's about destroying value. — Darl McBride Copy Share Image
And C++ programming languages, we own those, have licensed them out multiple times, obviously. We have a lot of royalties coming to us from… — Darl McBride Copy Share Image
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… — Darl McBride Copy Share Image
We're not talking about insignificant amounts of code. It's substantial System V code showing up in Linux. — Darl McBride Copy Share Image
We counted over a million lines of code that we allege are infringed in the Linux kernel today. — Darl McBride Copy Share Image
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… — Darl McBride Copy Share Image
