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About Andrew and Linus - A good article on AST's Web pageAbout Andrew and Linus - A good article on AST's Web pagePosted Jan 18, 2007 7:26 UTC (Thu) by pr1268 (subscriber, #24648)Parent article: LCA: Andrew Tanenbaum on creating reliable systems
I've known for several years now that Andrew Tanenbaum and Linus buried the hatchet long ago over the infamous flame war back in 1993. But for those of you not familiar, AST has written about his correspondence with Ken Brown of the Alexis de Tocqueville Institute. Brown appeared to be writing a book on the history of Unix; in particular he seemed to be prying (mis)information out of AST as to whether Linus could actually write the entire Linux kernel himself without "borrowing" others' (presumably copyrighted and/or patented) Unix code (the double-quotes are mine). I feel that AST's article is an enlightening account of the high praise AST actually has for Linus and Linux. http://www.cs.vu.nl/~ast/brown/
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About Andrew and Linus - A good article on AST's Web page Posted Jan 18, 2007 15:38 UTC (Thu) by tjc (subscriber, #137) [Link] Did anyone else notice that they both look the same? Check out that first picture -- Andy could be Linus' father.Linus in 30 years...
About Andrew and Linus - A good article on AST's Web page Posted Jan 18, 2007 17:12 UTC (Thu) by bronson (subscriber, #4806) [Link] TANNENBAUM (advancing on Linus): There is no escape. Don't make me destroy your kernel. You do not yet realize your code's importance. You have only begun to discover microkernels. Join me and I will complete your training. With our combined efforts, we can end this destructive conflict and bring order to the industry.
LINUS: I'll never join you!!
About Andrew and Linus Posted Jan 26, 2007 2:24 UTC (Fri) by nicku (subscriber, #777) [Link] Andrew Tanenbaum and Linus buried the hatchet long ago I don't think they were ever close to bearing hatchets in each other's company, but I was sitting in the row behind Linus in the talk, and I noticed that his applause was not the most heartfelt at the end of Andrew's talk. I don't expect a microkernel from Linus in the next year.
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