In article <xrFbj.36930$rc2.18174@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Linonut <linonut@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Wasn't there some asswipe (Jeff Merkey?) who offered to buy the Linux
> kernel for $15000?
$50000, although I wouldn't say it was to buy the kernel. He wanted a
copy of the kernel not under GPL. Presumably, it would have been a
one-time fork of the then-current kernel under a license suitable for
whatever weird thing he wanted to do, and normal development of the GPL
kernel would have continued.
(And he's tended to want to do weird things. The article about him on
Wikipedia is rather interesting:
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_V._Merkey>
Definitely a colorful character.)
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--Tim Smith
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