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michael
on from the oh-christmas-tree dept.
BigFire writes "Professor Tanenbaum responds to the slashdot effect and a small critique of Ken Brown's forthcoming book in his followup. A small gem is where he disclosed that Ken Brown can't multiply simple positive integers."
This attention resulted in over 150,000 requests to our server in less than a day, which is still standing despite yesterday being a national holiday with no one there to stand next to it saying "You can do it. You can do it." Kudos to Sun Microsystems and the folks who built Apache. My statement was mirrored all over the Internet, so the number of true hits to it is probably a substantial multiple of that. There were also quite a few comments at Slashdot, Groklaw, and other sites, many of them about me.
this man's ego dwarfs many people's entire sets of matching luggage
it sounds to me like Tannenbaum meant whatever disparagement he could, both to Linus directly and Linux as a system. He refused to comment, except under pressure, about "the Brown Book" even though he knew what was said in it and gave his implicit approval, because the book was still under "embargo" -- meaning it wasn't on the shelves in the Netherlands yet, not that there was any legal holdup or non-disclosure, or possibility that he would leak material that could potentially be banned.
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this man's ego dwarfs many people's entire sets of matching luggage
it sounds to me like Tannenbaum meant whatever disparagement he could, both to Linus directly and Linux as a system. He refused to comment, except under pressure, about "the Brown Book" even though he knew what was said in it and gave his implicit approval, because the book was still under "embargo" -- meaning it wasn't on the shelves in the Netherlands yet, not that there was any legal holdup or non-disclosure, or possibility that he would leak material that could potentially be banned.