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Linus Torvalds about SCO, IP, MS and Transmeta
strmcrw writes " San Jose Mercury News has an interview with Linus. He talks about about SCO vs IBM and gives his opinion on Microsoft. He also shed light on his decision to leave chip maker Transmeta for a Linux corporate software consortium, the Open Source Development Lab."
But some troll probably has a copyright on that kind of messages...
Ahrrgh, analogies....
Why o why does everybody and their grandma have to resort to analogies, btw should it be a bicycle or lyxury car(Linus said car...)? Suppose that is depending of what got stolen by whom(ref to SCO analogy).
Uh I think you need to read a bit more. If you were to search you'd find out that recently (as in the past 20 years) the Pope stated that Darwin was right. I say recent because the catholic religion has existed for 2,000 years and 10 years barely dents past time thinking the earth is only 6,000 years old or there abouts.
Hello.
This is offtopic but:
I am not a Catholic/Christian and do not follow the regigion of Christianity but I must take you up on your post.
"Then again the catholic religion suggested that the earth only existed for 6,000 years. I guess there is a line, in both situations, between provable fact and opinion"
If they suggested, let them suggest. What proof is there otherwise? There is only the suggestion of physics... is it not equally plausible the world spontaneously existed 6000 years ago as the big bang spontaneously occured however long ago, or any other opinion.
We are only what we think we are... the world around us does not exist in a way other than our perception of it, and there can be no proof other than belief in yourself. Even your memory is in the past, it can change... maybe you didn't exist 5 minutes ago and have had memories implanted?
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It was built on a minix system . Thats like saying since I wrote by programm and compiled it on linux then it is borrowing code for linux. It was based on minix in the sense that it was designed to replicate a number of the same functionality (and from my understanding replace minix and teach Linus how to code 386 assembly) .
THAT'S NOT THE REAL ALEX
Could this be modded up? I think this is the perfect forum for dick-talk. Now that we've established who's got the prettiest, can we finally talk size here?
I think, therefore I am...I think.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but in Linus' book, "Just for Fun," he says that he was influenced quite a bit by Andy T's book on OS design with Minix. And having read as much of that book as I could in the few hours I had a copy, I recall there being a lot of Minux source in it. So... I'd really think that he did have access to at least some of the Minux code when he wrote Linux.
Wow, how nice of them to retroactively extend time.
You worked on that a while, didn't you? :-)
Funny +++++1
SB
It's old. The more humans I meet, the more I like my cats. At least they are honest.
Indeed there is a perception...
But your suggestion a bus hits me implies one lives one's life differently if they consider other possibilities.
One lives one's life as best pleases them (giving to charity is a selfish action etc etc). Self preservation is one of these 'constraints' we usually follow by to live our lives, for what ever reason. So if walking under a bus may end our life, this self preservation preference will rule over our actions.
We are a function of our beliefs and our belief in our constraints, which may be real for our existence. Or not. Who knows?
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If something is not alive, it must be dead, no?
And how can we prove it is alive? If we cannot, then death must be a possbility.
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The goatse store.
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