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Andy Tanenbaum on 'Who Wrote Linux'

Posted by michael on from the besides-the-tooth-fairy-of-course dept.

Andy Tanenbaum writes "Ken Brown has just released a book on open source code. In it, he claims (1) to have interviewed me, and (2) that Linus Torvalds didn't write Linux. I think Brown is batting .500, which is not bad for an amateur (for people other than Americans, Japanese, and Cubans, this is an obscure reference to baseball). Since I am one of the principals in this matter, I thought it might be useful for me to put my 2 eurocents' worth into the hopper. If you were weren't hacking much code in the 1980s, you might learn something." Tanenbaum's description of the interview process with Brown is classic. See also Slashdot's original story and Linus' reply.

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  1. Re:fp by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    please?

    Denied!

  2. ROFFLE by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Check out the Google ads for a search of gay military. What is it with the US military and sexual perversion?

  3. still running minux by Jaro · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    on his server, isn't he?

  4. Re:Baseball by Quill_28 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Puerto Ricans and even Koreans I will give you.

    Every country plays baseball, most of those other country you mention football(soccer) dominates.

  5. Re:Baseball by mrtroy · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    You could add Canadians to that list...but it isn't really a list I would like to be part of. Knowing baseball and enjoying baseball are two seperate things...

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  6. Re:Did they have a fight over a girl? by Darth23 · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    You're being patently unfair to Mr. Rumsfeld (or Darth Rumsfeld, as I like to call him).

    He publicly stated that there will be a full investigation AND that there were only low level grunts involved. Only and brilliant, insightful and honorable man can offer the conclusion that a 'full investigation' will rech before it's ever launched.

    While some people would claim that the a proper course to follow in an inquiry would be to actually interview people at the lowest level, then one level higher, then right up the chain of command, and maybe even talk to some of the actual PRISONERS who were featured in the famous photos or housed at the prison, I'm quite sure that the whitewas- er full inquiry that is going on now will discover all the final facts that the Amercian public is entitled to.

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  7. Canada by xanadu-xtroot.com · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    The Canadians know aboot baseball...

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    I'm not a prophet or a stone-age man,
    I'm just a mortal with potential of a super man.
  8. Maybe about "Lynndie England" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    But the girl f*cks like a little minx (or minix). If you haven't had the pleasure yet, you should.