On Mon, 2004-08-30 at 01:35, Richard Urwin wrote: > Sorry if I jumped down your throat. I'm following this SCO et al debacle > fairly closely, and you hit a trigger phrase. > > (as you know, Ken Brown, [probably bank-rolled by MS,] has accused Linus > of copying MINIX when creating Linux. That would be an unlicensed use > of MINIX and if it were true would call into question the legality of > Linux.)
The developer of Minix, Andrew Tanenbaum, has stated that this is not the case. See his comments at: http://www.cs.vu.nl/~ast/brown/ and http://www.cs.vu.nl/~ast/brown/followup/ -- pm ---- We can learn even from our enemies. Ovid, Metamorphoses
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