Original Message: ----------------- From: Victor Nazarov [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 00:07:29 +0400 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [9fans] [OT] linus, the early years
Charles Forsyth wrote: >>>Yes. That's right. Whole story (from Linus's point of view) is in >>>Linus's Just for Fun book. Really Linux was just a terminal emulator for >>> >>> > >so you're saying it wasn't really `Just for Fun' but `Just for That!'. >and thus in a way, it was the flipside version of the opposing system's success: >the weather was good and some chap decides to go flying that day, >and IBM, kept waiting, decides: just for that he can go fly a kite, and they'll allow that >sprat Gates to provide them with a poxy little program loader. > > Many things was there for linux to be born. And any accident can lead to it's creation. If Linus wasn't the creator, somebody else would be. Linus beat one of my friends to the release by a few months... I wonder how many others dropped their projects when linux was announced. -- Marina Brown -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web.com/ .
