On 6/11/05, Raul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In this case, I'm wondering if I should think of that L as standing > for "Lawyer' or "Linus"...
I'm not Linus, either. I'm a pretty decent programmer, although I've certainly produced no evidence that I'm in his league. And besides, he's more diplomatic than I'll ever be; which, considering how undiplomatic he can be at times, is saying quite a bit. :-) Cheers, - Michael P. S. Note, however, that the Linux kernel is a derivative work of works by some other authors, such as netfilter/iptables. I don't mean to say that no one but Linus can file a claim of copyright infringement or breach of contract against someone who is doing genuinely inappropriate things with the kernel and friends (cf. the Sitecom and Fortinet cases). But in order to demonstrate standing, they're going to have to identify a work of authorship, not totally subsumed in the Linux kernel development process, on which their contribution rises to the level of co-author, as Harald Welte did with respect to netfilter/iptables.
