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Anticipated OSDL announcement blown out of proportion

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It began trickling out with a press release indicating IBM, Intel and the Open Source Development Labs (OSDL) had an announcement with "dramatic and global" implications. Then it got dramatic alright, with a report that the big January 25 announcement, code-named "Operation Open Gates," was a plan to rewrite Linux kernel components that might be infringing on some 283 patents, particularly those owned by Microsoft.

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Comments (3)

Everything O'Gara says should be taken with the same grain of salt you use with

Rob Enderle, Daniel Lyons, Laura Didio,

O'Gara though i consider worst of the bunch, as she speaks half truths instead of straight up lies.

Her two current claims to fame are Helping Jeff Merkey try to create a closed source Linux, and is petitioning the court in SCO vs IBM to unseal all records, claiming IBM is seal records at random. Of course a quick look at the facts show that IBM has sealed very little on it's own and most of IBM's sealed documents are replies to SCO's sealed Documents.

Help Jeff Merkey?? But he is nuts. Wacko. Coocoobanana. Several bricks shy. Etc. Do crazy people seek each other out? What the world needs now is more foil helmets.
>>What the world needs now is more foil helmets.

I could agree with you more tuxchick.

Your problem is that i patented the methond of using tin foil to block space, and ground based radio transmissions from altering human thought. Everyone who owns or builds a tin foil hat, heaadress, skull cap, etc. owes me $699.

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