Posted by
CmdrTaco
on from the this-is-only-gonna-get-more-interesting dept.
djtrippin writes "Linus comes forth on the SCO v IBM suit and how it pertains (or doesn't, for that matter) to Linux." He definitely puts a fair amount of perspective on the whole thing. This story really is only going to get more bizarre.
Re:The crux of the article
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ComputerSlicer23
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I don't know, he was the guy doing all of the coolest research in computer science at the time. He wrote the two books that everyone I know used for Operating Systems (at a variety of Universities), he wrote the Theory one, Design and Implementation one, he also wrote the Distributed OS book was used in senior courses, shit even Linus wanted him to sign a copy of his book. Showed up at his office when he was in Andy Tanenbaum's home country, but alas Andy wasn't there.
In Academic circles at the time, he in fact was one of the leading OS people on the planet. If you'd like to suggest he isn't, besides being just wrong about Micro Kernels (which a lot of people we're wrong about it, however, a lot of very cool, very stable OS's are based on the princepal, including the kind that go in medical equipment like QNX), what else didn't he do that would have made him one? He wrote the books everyone reads to learn about the foundations of OS theory. Okay he might not have been a leading expert, maybe only expert, but he sure as hell was a big name for an undergrad who'd never done shit (at that point) to stand up to, and say your an idiot on Usenet news.
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In Academic circles at the time, he in fact was one of the leading OS people on the planet. If you'd like to suggest he isn't, besides being just wrong about Micro Kernels (which a lot of people we're wrong about it, however, a lot of very cool, very stable OS's are based on the princepal, including the kind that go in medical equipment like QNX), what else didn't he do that would have made him one? He wrote the books everyone reads to learn about the foundations of OS theory. Okay he might not have been a leading expert, maybe only expert, but he sure as hell was a big name for an undergrad who'd never done shit (at that point) to stand up to, and say your an idiot on Usenet news.
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