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

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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…

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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…

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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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And C++ programming languages, we own those, have licensed them out multiple times, obviously. We have a lot of royalties coming to us from…

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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…

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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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Linux doesn't have IP roots.

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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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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…

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