[lug] Did Linus really not write Linux?

[Timothy Klein]

On Saturday 22 May 2004 03:00 pm, Ferdinand Schmid wrote:
> HI,
>
> I don't know how many of you have followed the latest M$ funded FUD
> campaign...  A so-called "Thinktank" claims that Linus didn't write Linux.
> The link below contains interesting information about the topic and the
> history of Unix in general, written by Andy Tanenbaum.
>
> http://www.cs.vu.nl/~ast/brown/
>

Agenda Filter:  Isn't Andy Tannenbaum the author of Minix (the first 
competetion to Linux), and the same guy that had the lengthy Usenet 
discussion with Torvalds in the early Nineties about how the Linux kernel was 
brain-dead, had no future, would never be ported to anything other than its 
original i386, and would never amount to anything, in general?

If it's the same guy, he's an ass that is too full of himself.  He drowns out 
his good points out in know-it-all-ness.  He also was a wee bit wrong on his 
early assessments of Linux, and the direction of OS design in general.

That doesn't discount his argument, but then again, why bother?

Tim
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