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Weird stuff from Alexis de Tocqueville InstitutionWeird stuff from Alexis de Tocqueville InstitutionPosted May 17, 2004 17:29 UTC (Mon) by hans (subscriber, #148)Parent article: Weird stuff from Alexis de Tocqueville Institution
Brown's account is based on extensive interviews with more than two dozen leading technologists in the United States, Europe, and Australia, including Richard Stallman, Dennis Ritchie, and Andrew Tanenbaum. This begs the question: Did they interview Linus? This press release has the flavor of an historical scandal, but it's not as if Linus has been dead for two hundred years or something. Couldn't they have just asked him if they thought something was fishy about Linux's origin?
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Asking Linus Posted May 17, 2004 17:58 UTC (Mon) by AnswerGuy (guest, #1256) [Link] If one is going to impugn the honesty of someone why would one bother to ask them directly? Once you've called someone's integrity and honesty to question then you have no reason to trust their answers to any questions you pose.However the issue is moot. Linus wrote the original code. Many contributed to it over the years (perhaps a couple thousand). Some among them may have contributed code of dubious provenance and some small amount of that may have managed to leak into Linux. This missive from de Toqueville is unconcerned with significance or truth --- it seems to be simple sensationalism. JimD
Weird stuff from Alexis de Tocqueville Institution Posted May 17, 2004 19:17 UTC (Mon) by JoeBuck (subscriber, #2330) [Link] Given the people he mentions, he will no doubt quote lots of people as saying that Linux is just a clone of Unix. Certainly Ritchie or Stallman would say that, and Linus wouldn't argue much. The point is, though, that Posix is a standard, and making a free implementation of it is completely legitimate.
Weird stuff from Alexis de Tocqueville Institution Posted May 21, 2004 17:30 UTC (Fri) by jmshh (guest, #8257) [Link] At least Andrew Tanenbaum has something to say about the interview, and it explains some of the weirdness.
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