Re: The Problems With Linux

From: Alex (alex_at_totallynerd.com)
Date: 05/26/04 

Date: 26 May 2004 12:23:18 -0700

Rob van der Putten <rob@sput.nl> wrote in message news:<40B2493C.3A048199@sput.nl>...
> Hi there
>
>
> Alex wrote:
>
> > Suzie wrote:
> >
> > > o the priorly-assumed creator of it admitted this week that he
> > > didn't in fact create it, but was posing as front man for the
> > > real creators;
> >
> > Can you give links or more info to back this statement? You're
> > talking outta your ass now.
>
> This is true and Linus admitted it. It's been all over Slashdot;
> Linux was created by the Tooth Fairy & Santa Claus.
>
>
> Reagrds,
> Rob

Hi Rob,

If you're refering to the Alexis de Tocqueville Institute report, I
haven't read it yet, but in interviews with Linus, he still says he
did not use any Minix code.

http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104_2-5216651.html
-- snip --
 "I didn't 'write the Minix code out of Linux,'" Torvalds said. "I was
using Minix when I wrote Linux, but that's in the same sense that you
are using Windows when you write your columns. Do your articles
contain Windows source code because you use Windows to write them?"

Torvalds isn't the only one to dispute the study: Tanenbaum himself
sided against Brown.

"Linus didn't sit down in a vacuum and suddenly type in the Linux
source code. He had my book, was running Minix and undoubtedly knew
the history (since it is in my book). But the code was his," Tanenbaum
said in a Web posting about his interview.
-- snip --

Both Linus and Andy Tanenbaum both agree that Linux is not directly
from Minix, then who's to argue? Andy wrote Minix and Linus wrote
Linux, so I'd tend to go with what they say over some third party
company who's funded by Microsoft. -
http://www.mediatransparency.org/recipients/alexis.html

Alex.

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