Accusing those who accuse Microsoft of FUD of employing FUD themselves is itself a form of FUD.

Seriously though, where's your evidence that Torvalds's statements are less correct or more misleading than Microsoft's?

Noel, you folks have bigger problems than that,
Linus seems to be warming to GPL 3.0:

Q: How do you see the relationship of Linux and Solaris evolving in the future? How will it benefit the users?

Linus: I don't actually see a whole lot of overlap, except that I think Solaris will start using more of the Linux user space tools (which I obviously don't personally have a lot to do with -- I really only do the kernel). The Linux desktop is just so much better than what traditional Solaris has, and I expect Solaris to move more and more towards a more Linux-like model there.

On the pure kernel side, the licensing differences mean that there's not much cooperation, but it will be very interesting to see if that will change. Sun has been making noises about licensing Solaris under the GPL (either v2 or v3), and if the licence differences go away, that could result in some interesting technology. But I'm taking a wait-and-see attitude to that....if Solaris really is to be released under the GPLv3, maybe the advantage of avoiding unnecessary non-compatible licence issues could be enough of an advantage that it might be worth trying to re-license the Linux kernel under the GPLv3 too.