Linus Not The Father Of Linux, According to Report

MrIrwin writes "According to this article on Yahoo, Linus is not the real father of Linux and Open source software is really just code nicked from other sources. " Groklaw has done a dissection of the press release. It's a press release by the Alexis de Toqueville Institution, who gets funding from MSFT, as well as believes that US IT troubles are because of free software. Oh, and terrorism works better because of open source, and the "Star Wars" program was a good idea.

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Re:AdTI: Handouts for Neocons

[bruthasj]

This is a demi-journalistic hack shop where goldbricking bottomfeeders of right-wing policy studies and editorial-writing filch cash from gullible corporations in return for hastily-written hokum.

Sans right-wing, welcome to slashdot.

Re:Star Wars did what it was supposed to do.

[geek]

Yeah I just love how the rabid looney left likes to twist Star Wars. Reagan used it as a bargaining chip with Gorbachev. In every meeting they had Gorbachev made vast sweeping compromises if only Reagan would cancel Star Wars. Reagan was quoted as saying he wanted to be "the first president in US history to say no to the Soviet Union". That coupled with the deal he made with the saudis to raise oil production and the USSR's trouble in Afghanistan as well as Chernobyle......

Of course listening to the left we'd be led to believe Gorbie had a change of heart and the USSR spontaneously combusted.

Re:Microsoft's history of dishonesty and crime

[VAXGeek]

"Through the sabotage of Java alone, Microsoft has cost the world HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS of dollars, by delaying the development of e-commerce."

Obviously BS. Microsoft has probably SAVED the world BILLIONS of dollars of expenses in buying extra 512 meg of memory so Java apps will run. (Of course, XP would probably take 256 of that, so maybe it works out about even in the end...)