[Techtalk] One Standardized Version of Linux

[iriXx]

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still,
under windows you're not even supposed to touch the kernel or recompile it... let alone hack...

bw

miriam

On Sat, 11 May 2002 00:48:11 -0400
kansas_kennedy at phreaker.net <kansas_kennedy at phreaker.net> wrote:

> Well....it's true that under Linux we can change the source code and make it 
> fit to our use. But truly how many of us are really capable of doing this? 
> 
> It takes a hell load to hack the source code. You have to be a genius in C.
> 
> On Monday 06 May 2002 16:31, you wrote:
> > Monday, May 06, 2002, 3:34:00 AM, BUNTER MATTHEW wrote:
> > > On Sat, May 04, 2002 at 10:25:01PM +0100, /dev/null wrote:
> > >>> there isnt centralised 'control'... and when there is, in the case of
> > >>> Linus's work, he's known to be a 'benign dictator'... and people can,
> > >>> as you say, always go off and do their own things with the ideas if
> > >>> they want something different....
> > >>
> > >> And not only can they do their own thing with the ideas, they can do
> > >> their own thing with the actual source code.
> > >>
> > >> There is nothing stoping me having my own version of the Linux kernel :)
> > >
> > > Sorry don't follow here. I thought that the trademark of 'Linux' was
> > > owned by Linus. Doesn't this mean that he has saw over how the name is
> > > used?
> >
> > These are two different things, though.  The previous poster wrote
> > that she could make her own version of the Linux kernel -- that's
> > true.  Since Linus owns the trademark, she can't *call* it Linux
> > without his permission, but since the code is under GPL, she can
> > modify it and redistribute it, and there's nothing Linus can do about
> > that.
> 
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