Quoting Carl Cerecke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On 16/02/06, Zane Gilmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Wasn't Andrew Tanenbaum one of Linus's operating system theory > professors?
I would say he's the OS theory professor of quite a few people, on account of the number of people who have bought his books, whether or not they are enrolled in a University. > > > > I seem to remember him making comments about not giving Linus > > "full marks" for Linux because he used a monolithic kernel structure. "LINUX IS OBSOLETE" is one of Usenet's classic flame wars. I got it in several of my Slackware 2.8 releases; one, the genuine Slackware disc, throws it in; one, the Yggdrasil compilation, includes it in the pile of details; and the Walnut Creek one also puts it in the pile. > > > > It was around the time that that guy was tring to claim that Linus > could > > not possibly have written Linux. > > There was about 10+ years between the two events. AT bagged Linux in > the early-mid 90's. > > A couple of years ago some dodgy guy named Ken Brown working for a > puppet organisation working for (probably) SCO interviewed AT for a > 'book' about how Linus couldn't have written Linux. AT's take on it is > a good read: > > http://www.cs.vu.nl/~ast/brown/ I sent him my condolences on being mugged-in-print by a poison-pen wielding thug, including the thought that if I was ever mugged-in-print that way, I'd probably take to the thug in the time-honoured manner of the ice hockey goalie. ;) He said he wasn't _that_ conflicted! Wesley Parish > > Cheers, > Carl. > "Sharpened hands are happy hands. "Brim the tinfall with mirthful bands" - A Deepness in the Sky, Vernor Vinge "I me. Shape middled me. I would come out into hot!" I from the spicy that day was overcasked mockingly - it's a symbol of the other horizon. - emacs : meta x dissociated-press
