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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Of course....

[gmuslera]

biologically speaking, i mean, Linus is father till now of Patricia, Daniela and Celeste.

Now, if they are speaking figuratelly as the original creator of the kernel, that is one of the most documented things in history, or at least, in internet. Of course, maybe some of its components were created before, but is like saying that the father of the car in fact is someone from centuries ago with the invention of the wheel.

Re:Linux's actual father

[smurf975]

I think it's really easy to figure what Osama Bin Ladens supporters are using.

First figure out from what countries they are mostly from.

Second what's the most populair OS in those countries.

My personal awnser would be they are mostly from arab countries and the most populair os is a illegal Windows system. Like that guy that's related to 9/11 what email provider did he use? Hotmail and hotmail is MS. Or the guys from linuxinstalfest QA of Egypte told that most Egyptians assosiate email hotmail.