On Fri, 2004-05-21 at 16:41, JoeHill wrote: > Kenneth Brown, president of the 'Alexis de Tocqueville Institution', has written > a great big book in which he: > > "...conducted a comprehensive study on the source of open-source code, > tracing the free-software movement over three decades, including interviews with > some two-dozen principal developers of Linux..." > > Really? Then how, after all that, did he find a way to make this error: > > "Among the conclusions is that there is a high probability that Linux is a > derivative work, based on previous operating systems -- including, but not > limited to, Unix and Minux," > > 'Minux'? Dontcha mean MINIX, prof? LOL! > > Well, shows ya what them book-learnin' people know... > > Link: > > http://tinyurl.com/ywrx7 > > Groklaw takes him apart messily here: > > http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20040518204701382
Try: http://tinyurl.com/ywrx7 and the register yesterday at http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/05/20/tanenbaum_on_adti_brown/ Where Tenebaum (writer of Minix) decribes the author of the article as 'not the sharpest knife in the box'. -- Paul M. _________________________________ In the beginning, man created god.
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