Weird stuff from Alexis de Tocqueville Institution

Posted May 17, 2004 19:17 UTC (Mon) by JoeBuck (subscriber, #2330)
In reply to: Weird stuff from Alexis de Tocqueville Institution by hans
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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.