On Mar 10, 2011, at 9:18 AM, John Stalberg wrote: > >> >>>> By the time Linus "invented" Linux that problem had been solved. ... those >>>> were interesting times. >>> >>> "invented" == built upon Andrew Tanenbaum's Minix. >> >> Yeah, but who ever heard of Minux except old Unix heads. I doubt many Linux >> users know what it is/was. ... :) >> > What? Linux and Minix are fundamentally different. The Minix predates Linux > but one doesn't need two search hard to find them to be discussed by the > original authours and by others were there are absolute concensus about the > difference. > > I submit a link to a foil hat who in his attempt to miscrerdit Linus and the > Linux early coders with accusation about code theft acctually brought the > Minix authour Tanenbaum on himself. This includes code comparison which of > course didn't find any copied code! > > http://www.cs.vu.nl/~ast/brown/rebuttal/ > > About code comparison: > http://www.cs.vu.nl/~ast/brown/codecomparison/ > > I know a concept can be the base of something without needing the finer > details (the code) but there isn't any similarities between the two that > possibly can be defined as Linux was built upon the Minix? It is the > differencies people tend to acknowledge and nothing else.
Having read the link articles, I withdraw my assertion about Linux and its ancestry. - M_______________________________________________ MacOSX-admin mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-admin
