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

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

Posted May 21, 2004 6:49 UTC (Fri) by jtc (subscriber, #6246)
In reply to: Is Torvalds really the father of Linux? (News.com) by dano
Parent article: Is Torvalds really the father of Linux? (News.com)

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.)

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