Darl McBride Quotes

We're not talking about insignificant amounts of code. It's substantial System V code showing up in Linux.

Linux doesn't have IP roots.

We counted over a million lines of code that we allege are infringed in the Linux kernel today.

Obviously Linux owes its heritage to UNIX, but not its code. We would not, nor will not, make such a claim.

At the end of the day, the GPL is not about making software free; it's about destroying value.

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

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