I am not being cynical, but the GPL is too overreaching. This is not just my opinion. I have visited dozens of free software websites and developer disfavor about the GPL is steadily increasing. It is just a matter of time before the tenuousness of this license ends up in a court. I think money will also force this issue into court, because inevitably, someone's confusion about the license will lead to the loss of a ton of money. When big cash is on the table, a court case is around the corner.-- Ken Brown, 2002-10-31

Your IBM funded-man [...] Let them know that I have no problem AdTI would be happy to accept far less money than those guys are getting to support our research.-- Ken Brown, 2003-09-25

I have no problems with it...like I said, I'd be happy to have a check from IBM too. Its just time to end the mythology that Linux is something that people who are above "money" sell. Linux is a business product. It makes money. It makes more money as it is advertised, promoted and sold, etc. Linux salesman are capitalists, not philanthropists. I don't see a difference, nor do I think it is objectionable.-- Ken Brown, 2003-09-26

The author, Kenneth Brown, president of AdTI, comments, "the open source community wants to develop software freely, irrespective of patents and patent-holders. Consequently, this will lead to an imminent fall-out between big business, patent-holders, and the Linux community."

It is not uncommon today for patent fights to erupt even between parties that have engaged in rigorous diligence. By contrast, open source developers and distributors do not engage in patent searches, thus, there is a real possibility we will see a major patent fight involving open source, sooner than later."-- Ken Brown, 2004-05-10

"People's exceptional interest in the Unix operating system made Unix one of the most licensed, imitated, and stolen products in the history of computer science," he states.

[...] "For almost thirty years, programmers have tried to build a Unix-like system and couldn't," Brown says. "To this day, we have a serious attribution problem in software development, because some programmers may have chosen to unscrupulously borrow or imitate Unix."-- Ken Brown, 2004-05-17

"It's clear to me, at least from quotes from Tanenbaum, that Linus started from Minix...He just sat down with Minix and wrote this product. By definition, that is not an invention," Brown said. "If you sit down with the Ford blueprints and build a Chrysler and don't give Ford any credit, that's not invention."

[...] In an interview conducted for the study, Brown quoted Tanenbaum as saying that Minix "was the base that Linus used to create Linux. He also took many ideas from Minix, including the file system, source tree and much more."-- Ken Brown, 2004-05-19

"We don't talk about money with anybody ... but we'll accept money from anybody," he said.-- Ken Brown, 2004-05-19

"What I'm against is hybrid code, which is what is causing this criminal activity," Brown told LinuxInsider. [...] "That hybrid genesis is causing people who work for major corporations to borrow and steal code ... and to have to contribute to open-source code," he said. "It started out academically and evolved to something commercial. That's what's caused the problem."

[...] "Now he's making a big joke, saying it was Santa and the Tooth Fairy," said Brown, "but I want all of your readers to ask themselves, in the history of computing, has anyone else ever written an operating system who never was a licensee, didn't have operating system experience, and didn't have the source code? How did he develop so much code in just six months? Everyone else has taken years to develop operating systems.... Linus perpetuated the lie [that he is the inventor of the Linux kernel], and I have a problem with this smarmy attitude."-- Ken Brown, 2004-05-19

"I publish what I think and that's it. I don't work for anybody's PR machine," he said.-- Ken Brown, 2004-05-20

"Imagine what we could do if the government supported programming competitions, where kids could compete by writing open-source code?"-- Ken Brown, 2004-05-21