On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 11:05:53PM -0500, Mathias Stearn wrote: > http://mail.gnome.org/archives/usability/2005-December/msg00021.html > > I thought some of you might get a kick out of that.
While I agree with him in this case, there has been a number of occasions where Linus has made some pretty similarly broad and narrow minded statements that it makes me question his general sense. Just because someone had the free time to sit down and write an OS, and was able to follow it up with the goodness of their heart to release it for free, doesn't make their words gospel. One of my favorites is : http://people.fluidsignal.com/~luferbu/misc/Linus_vs_Tanenbaum.html >From Andrew Tanenbaum (OS instructor who wrote the book Linus used to create Linux): "I still maintain the point that designing a monolithic kernel in 1991 is a fundamental error. Be thankful you are not my student. You would not get a high grade for such a design :-)" Granted, loadable kernel modules duck most of the issues with monolithic kernels, but they didn't exist at the time. - Rob .
