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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.
"No... I am your father!"
Thou shalt be excommunicated from the church of *nix!
-Imidazole2
Yeah, and Gates is not the father of the BSOD.
Nothing disturbs me more than blind loyalism towards some unrealistic and over-idealistic notion of one's nationality.
Isn't Darl McBride the true father of Linux? This is why he wants his $699. Effective immediately, Linux will be renamed to Darlsux.
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
*ducks*
"I'm just here to regulate funkiness."
Yeah...based on the logic presented in that article, he is going to come to the conclusion that Linux was really the result of a gay marriage between Charles Babbage and Alan Turing.
This is almost as funny as that "5 year study" on the Total cost of ownership of Win2K vs Linux that was released in 2001.
I've dirtied my hands writing poetry, for the sake of seduction; that is, for the sake of a useful cause. --Dostoevsky
Do us all a favor. If you happen to have candid photos of the conception, do not post them here.
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
and the "Star Wars" program was a good idea
...but not the "Christmas on Endor" version.
Ryosen
One man's "Troll, +1" is another man's "Insightful, +1".
As far as I can tell, the true father of Linux is in fact Al Gore. He invented it shortly after his fledgling idea of a net-inter caught on and became what we know now as the internet. It was originally called Alix, but had to be renamed due to copyright issues involving a book about wonderland....
"The large print giveth, and the small print taketh away" -Tom Waits
OH, so I suppose this will tank my stock in Linux. :-P
OK, so first of all, wasn't the GNU project underway by the time Linux was written, thus making RMS much more of the "Father"?
In addition, according to the article: "Brown suggests the invention of Unix is an integral part of the Linux story," but isn't that the point of a Unix-like OS developed for the PC?
Oh, wait. I'm supposed to buy in to FUD tactics.
I wish I could write clever and witty sigs.
And since Lemma 1.7 says "no communist is worth his own weight in dog excrement," it naturally follows that Linux must have originated elsewhere.
I propose one of the following:
I think you'll see the logic in all of this immediately.
After many interviews with astronauts and rocket scientists, I have determined that the moon is probably made of cheese.
I tell all in my soon-to-be-released book.
Find out how NASA lied!
Excerpts to be published on my website.
(Note: This is not a shameless self-promotion gimmick. It's not. Really.)
I can see the fat cats at the De 'Tokerville' institute, sitting around their conference table, thick smoke overloading the air ventilation system:
"Yeah - we can kill two birds with one stone: write a book to make more money for our 'institute'.."
"..I thought it was a 'foundation'..."
"Whatever..."
"...and throw out more FUD at the OS communists!!"
"BRILLIANT!!"
"Dude!! Are you goin' to Bogart that?"
Lodragan Draoidh
The more you explain it, the more I don't understand it. - Mark Twain
Enter Bill Gates
[Darth Vader voice] Linux ... I am you father [/Darth Vader voice]
-- The Internet is a too slow way of doing things, you'd never do without it.
OSAMA BIN LADEN!
Thus, by using Linux, you're supporting the terrorists.
Everyone please report to the near Homeland detention center for "reprogramming".
This is almost like saying Bill Gates didn't write MS DOS! ...oh wait...
He didn't.
Really, I know what I'm doing...Ohhhh, look at the shiny buttons!
By the same token, SDI was not created in a vacuum..
I thought the whole idea of SDI was for lasers to be created in a vacuum.
I'm guessing that wasn't on their radar screen...
Hasn't anybody seen the IBM ads? Unless of course Linus gave birth to an Albino son, there is no way that Linus is the father of Linux.
My Favourite Meme
No, no, it was just that Linus had really boring at school, so he hacked to the M$ network and stole this and related files from their labs, and put his name and street address under it.
.NET platform.
It should have become the kernel of their new, more advanced version of Windows, but as the code was leaked they decided to abandon it, blamed the leakage to its head developer and fired him - some guy called Stallman - and hired Cutler to his place.
This was a brief history of Windows NT and Linux, and an explanaition why Windows sucks and Linux rocks today. Stallman, on the other hand, felt pissed and took the lead of certain miserable and insignificant foundation called FSF, which developed viral licenses to communistic IP-dishonoring hippies, and later on claimed himself its founder.
By they way, I also heard recently that Linus' file in Finnish citizenship registry keeps magically getting erased at random times ever since the said registry was moved to run on
But now you have to excuse me, as I'm out of crack and my hands are shaking too badly.
“Wait for Hurd if you want something real” –Linus
yo.
some early-twenties geek with the writing level of an eleven year old.
One time I threw a brick at a duck.
Try to reduce the Linux community by litterally annoying their followers to death. Particularly the zealots will get issues if they have weak hearts (which most have since geeks don't exercise) while composing their forum posts. A very clever plan indeed...
Beware: In C++, your friends can see your privates!
I am not sure if terrorism works better because of open source, but that Nicholas Berg video appears to have been encoded in WMV format.
From the Groklaw review: "I'll tell you more soon, and I hope you will help us beat off the dark side's UNIX nonsense once and for all by contributing your knowledge and skills to that project, so we can prove where all the code came from and who owned it, making future "studies" like this one impossible."
:)
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If it's all the same, I'm with them in spirit but am going to take a pass on the call to beat off the dark side.
"Luke, I am your . . . ohhhhh, that's it, that's it, a little faster, ohhhhhhh . . .
"The bigger the lie, the more they believe." - Det. Bunk
Just wait until you see it on a Neon server. It'll be a glowing review!
--
"Outlook not so good." That magic 8-ball knows everything! I'll ask about Exchange Server next.
I would frankly nail the libellous sons-of-bitches to the wall, profit or no.
I thing you meant libellous bastards.
Of course, what REALLY burns me is the line that says For almost thirty years, programmers have tried to build a Unix-like system and couldn't, somehow suggesting that UNIX is like the the tinfoil hat version of the pyramids of Egypt--some mysterious advanced technology that no one understands and couldn't possibly replicate.
Apparently BSD isn't written by programmers either.
"We returned the General to El Salvador, or maybe Guatemala, it's difficult to tell from 10,000 feet"
Alien puppet Linus swiped Linux from SCO, says balanced study.
... ;-)
Linus is an alien. He is a Finnish citizen currently residing in the United States.
(And take a look at the Finnish language. Talk about alien
Those who do study history are doomed to stand helplessly by while everyone else repeats it.
According to The Microsoft Timeline (note: Flash animated):
"Using the Altair 8800, Bill Gates and Paul Allen develop the first programming language, and begin an extraordinary, history-making journey."
It looks like Bill and Paul were the proud parents of the a bouncing baby programming language, the first one ever!
OLPC Australia
It was actually called N-TEN-DO, which is why so many geeks still run windows calling it "wintendo". ;)
SCO: Slashdot never told you what happened to your father.
LINUX: They told me enough! They told me you killed him!
SCO: No, Linux. I am your father!
LINUX: NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
Wasn't that the mental condition were people have a compulsion to express themselves frequently and loudly with profanity?
You're FUCK thinking of FUCK Tourettes Syndrome
Dan.
"I was reffereing to the fact that Paul Allen and Bill Gates started Microsoft porting Basic interpreters from a "borrowed" open source base."
Why stop at that? Where Micro-Soft's original corporate home was is very intresting. The Sundowner Motel in Albuquerque. The Sundowner was a seedy little Motel that was widely used by drug dealers and Hookers for their business.
Microsoft was born in a Whore House! Dosen't that explain their Business ethics?
Quemadmodum gladius neminem occidit, occidentis telum est