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Linus Torvalds at linux.conf.au

By Munir Kotadia, Chris Duckett and Matthew Oxley, ZDNet Australia
January 19, 2007
URL: http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/soa/Linus-Torvalds-at-linux-conf-au/0,130061733,339273108,00.htm

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At linux.conf.au in Sydney this week, we spoke to Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux, who expressed his dislike for Digital rights management and the latest revision of the General Public License, which he deemed as "just another licence".

He criticised the kernel development community for sometimes scaring away new talent and revealed his surprise at how resilient the 2.6 Linux kernel has been to 'invasive' changes.

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