On Monday 30 August 2004 00:35, Richard Urwin wrote:
> Sorry if I jumped down your throat. I'm following this SCO et al
> debacle fairly closely, and you hit a trigger phrase.
>
> (as you know, Ken Brown, [probably bank-rolled by MS,] has
> accused Linus of copying MINIX when creating Linux. That would be
> an unlicensed use of MINIX and if it were true would call into
> question the legality of Linux.)
Linus wrote wrote the first version of his code on Minix, yes. Does
that mean, that if someone writes a love-letter using Microsoft
Word that Bill and Steve have a date ?
Does Remington own James Joyce's "Ulysses" because it was typed on a
Remington typewriter ?
Does Gutenberg own the Bible ?
Does the goose own the works of Shakespeare because it was written
with a feather ?
And so on.
Professor Tanenbaum - who wrote Minix - explicitely declared, that
there is NO Minix-code in Linux. Period.
Kaj Haulrich.
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