Is Torvalds really the father of Linux? (News.com) [LWN.net]

Is Torvalds really the father of Linux? (News.com)

Posted May 20, 2004 20:30 UTC (Thu) by dano (guest, #21719)
In reply to: Is Torvalds really the father of Linux? (News.com) by piman
Parent article: Is Torvalds really the father of Linux? (News.com)

One word: Sock-puppet. This Institution is the same one that has put out lots of FUD about open source in the past (like about how Windows is more secure than Linux, except that they conveniently excuded malware like viruses and worms). They are funded primarily by Microsoft, much like SCO was (via Baystar), and they seem to exist solely to spread misinformation.

Read Tannenbaum's article about his interview with Ken Brown and you'll see just how clueless Brown is. He supposedly was writing a book about the history of Unix and hadn't even heard of Salus' book. He also stated that no one in 30 years had been able to produce a Unix-like operating system single-handedly, even though Tannenbaum gave him the names of 6 people who had.

dano

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Is Torvalds really the father of Linux? (News.com)

Posted May 21, 2004 6:49 UTC (Fri) by jtc (subscriber, #6246) [Link]

It's obvious from the available facts that Brown is incompetent with respect to his ability to write the report he published. He doesn't know enough about technology or legal issues, and apparently didn't even listen properly to what Tanenbaum had to say.

This is so obvious that it's likely that even many non-geek business people will realize he doesn't know what he is talking about.

It could be that this report was bought and paid for by MS, but if that's the case, they certainly didn't get their money's worth.

If ADTI keeps publishing articles like this one, it seems likely that soon no one with any sense of respectability will want to have anything to do with them. (Wasn't Alexis de Tocqueville a respected philosopher? I wonder what his descendants will think if this organization ends up damaging his reputation.)