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		<title>LinuxFoundation: Long interview with Linus Torvalds</title>
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		<description>Posts in the discussion thread &quot;LinuxFoundation: Long interview with Linus Torvalds&quot; - Pretty thorough interview with some nice comments on patents and innovation.</description>
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				<title>LinuxFoundation: Long interview with Linus Torvalds</title>
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				<pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2008 15:35:24 +0000</pubDate>
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						 <p>Jim Zemlin had a long interview (<a href="http://linux-foundation.org/weblogs/openvoices/linus-torvalds-part-i/">part1</a> and <a href="http://linux-foundation.org/weblogs/openvoices/linus-torvalds-part-ii/">part2</a>) with Linus Torvalds. The first part is more about kernel development, but the second touches the topic of software patents:</p> <blockquote> <p>Patents are nasty. It’s kind of hard to really say a lot more than the fact that patents on ideas in general are a huge mistake and the whole notion that you can have patents, business models and software is pretty broken to begin with.</p> </blockquote> <p>And:</p> <blockquote> <p>innovation is way too over used a word and people seem to think it’s something wonderfully good and the fact is […] [i]nnovation is not that important and it shouldn’t be because in the end what you want to do is you want to get the work done and 99% of that is really – it’s not about innovation.</p> </blockquote> 
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