[lug] Did Linus really not write Linux?

[Nick Golder]

On 2004-05-26 20:18 -0600, Jordan Crouse wrote:

Wrapping is a good thing for email. ;-)

> I'm sorry, but go back and read Tanenbaum's articles.  This is just not true.  Tanenbaum wrote Minix as a teaching exercise.  I doubt nobody is exactly sure what Linus's real motivations were, but it wasn't as though free alternatives wern't available.  If Linus had bought into the early GNU philosophy, we would be HUG (Hurd Users Group) memebers.  Not to mention, the BSD/Bell lawsuit was just resolving itself around that time, so that alternative was available as well.
> 

I think the title of Linus' book aptly describes why he chose to create
GNU/Linux:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0066620732/qid=1085625428/sr=8-1/ref=pd_ka_1/102-4113391-4510532?v=glance&s=books&n=507846

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-Nick Golder