"Two OSDL officials, however, told NewsForge that the report was "inflation of reality" and "not close to accurate at all." The officials instead indicated that while ODSL is working with the City of Beaverton and the State of Oregon, those bodies are not, as reported, underwriting the consortium that is "rewriting" the Linux code.
"It's just crazy," said one official, adding that the report's speculation on the patent strategy is "total fabrication as far as we can tell."
"The whole thing with patents -- that we can't figure out," he said, adding that the report was likely a case of putting together some disparate pieces of information incorrectly."
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20050115131942494 daté du 11 Janvier
[^] # Re: FUD
Posté par Jean Roc Morreale . En réponse à la dépêche Un consortium pourrait ré-écrire une partie du noyau pour éviter les risques liés aux brevets. Évalué à 2.
"Two OSDL officials, however, told NewsForge that the report was "inflation of reality" and "not close to accurate at all." The officials instead indicated that while ODSL is working with the City of Beaverton and the State of Oregon, those bodies are not, as reported, underwriting the consortium that is "rewriting" the Linux code.
"It's just crazy," said one official, adding that the report's speculation on the patent strategy is "total fabrication as far as we can tell."
"The whole thing with patents -- that we can't figure out," he said, adding that the report was likely a case of putting together some disparate pieces of information incorrectly."
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20050115131942494 daté du 11 Janvier