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Linus Not The Father Of Linux, According to Report

Posted by Hemos on from the fear-uncertaintity-and-doubt dept.

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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  1. Re:Seeing as they like history...... by cblguy · · Score: 2, Troll
    It's unfortunate that the linked article is crap. :( Any "history" article that goes directly from DOS to Windows 3.1, and failing to mention GEM, is certainly incorrect and missing a critical transition. I remember working with Win/286 and Win/386, and then in ~1991 when the "next big thing" hit the market - Windows 3.0. It was gonna be huge. Indeed.

    And then there's the author's terrible writing style (which was indeed a terrible style, written terribly) ;)