On 2005-02-09T22:38:05-0600, Shawn K. Quinn wrote: > On Wed, 2005-02-09 at 09:09 -0800, James A. Donald wrote: > > -- > > There is nothing stopping you from writing your own operating > > system, so Linus did. > > Linus Torvalds didn't write the GNU OS. He wrote the Linux kernel, which > when added to the rest of the existing GNU OS, written by Richard > Stallman among others, allowed a completely free operating system. > Please don't continue to spread the misconception that Linus Torvalds > wrote the entire (GNU) operating system.
I think everyone who reads Cypherpunks knows what Linus did and did not do, and that "operating system" in JAD's post means "kernel". -- Certainly there is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never really care for anything else thereafter. --Hemingway, Esquire Apr/1936