On 11-Jan-99 Jeremy Blosser wrote about the following [SuSE Linux] Linux
history (was Re: Problems with Swap) :
|| I don't want to add fuel to this fire or anything, but I did have a
|| couple
|| questions about some of the data thrown about in this thread:
|| 1) Is it correct to call Minix "freeware"? I thought one of the
|| reasons Linus
|| did Linux was that you had to pay so much for Minix.
||
|| 2) Acc to Linus, cited at "http://www.li.org/history/index.shtml",
|| Linux was
|| Minix-free. He says a few places that it's "free of Minix code". Was
|| the
|| above Minix code added later, is Linus having a conveiniently
|| selective
|| memory, or what? Just curious, cause nothing personal, but I'd take
|| his word
|| over either of yours w/o some further clarification :)
Linus took the initial Minix FS and character handling routine, because
without that, it would be very difficult to do work! :?) But that was for
his initial attempt at what is know known as Linux. Once he created a
kernel with his own character handling routing and the first filesystem
and successfully compiled it, minix code was no more
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