Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262287AbVDFTHN (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Apr 2005 15:07:13 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262286AbVDFTHM (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Apr 2005 15:07:12 -0400 Received: from wproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.184.202]:25374 "EHLO wproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262287AbVDFTHE (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Apr 2005 15:07:04 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:references; b=ixKC4odd2yiPtjdeaIvhHI+mAcCDrVKUSIaMT1rX1Gg+1OJmVrHtOfiSqc5ScjStUaJtmNxkcCpWrtVmLmioQgwF8Y9dhu67T9K9PQ0fIWEhEdqoBYI0EHXDeYu3Pay5dqwZaEWRthCHtbEKNaibJMpPk+clNH+CZWg+hRMx8xE= Message-ID: <9e4733910504061207538485a6@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2005 15:07:03 -0400 From: Jon Smirl Reply-To: Jon Smirl To: Linus Torvalds , Larry McVoy Subject: Re: Kernel SCM saga.. Cc: Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1014 Lines: 22 On Apr 6, 2005 11:42 AM, Linus Torvalds wrote: > So I just wanted to say that I'm personally very happy with BK, and with > Larry. It didn't work out, but it sure as hell made a big difference to > kernel development. And we'll work out the temporary problem of having to > figure out a set of tools to allow us to continue to do the things that BK > allowed us to do. Larry has stated several time that most of his revenue comes from Windows. Has ODSL approached Bitmover about simply buying out the source rights for the Linux version? From my experience in the industry a fair price would probably be around $2M, but that should be within ODSL's capabilities. ODSL could then GPL the code and quiet the critics. -- Jon Smirl jonsmirl@gmail.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/