What is kind of special about Linux
is that

it kind of uses a judo trick 
in copyright law

turning the copyright law kind of 
against itself, in saying that,

sure, we own the copyright to this

but you get to copy it freely. 
You can do whatever you want with it.

You can use it in any way,
you can change it in any way

The only thing that we require is that 
when you change it, and you give it to

somebody else, you give that somebody else
the same rights

So when somebody else makes changes to 
Linux, I don't ask him to assign the

copyright to me. So I actually don't have 
any rights to a lot of the system

except the rights that other people are 
willing to give me, which are the same

rights that I am willing to give other 
people. So what you will find is that

nobody can control Linux.

I don't have anymore rights than you 
have. If you wanted to,

you could buy a Linux CD, you could get 
it over the internet,

you could make your own changes

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