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More Responses to de Tocqueville Hatchet Job
akahige writes "Fresh from the debunking of the 'Linus couldn't possibly have written an OS without ripping someone off' book published by the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution, Tanenbaum has published an email he got from the consultant hired to do the code comparison between MINIX and Linux. Among other juicy comments, 'pay no attention to this man.' (There was no stolen code, either.) In related matters, ESR was apparently sent a pre-release excerpt of the book which he completely eviscerates with his usual zeal. Another story on NewsForge." See our previous stories if you're coming to this late.
Never read the flame war did you? The whole "Linux is obsolete" thing? He kicked off a flame war and wouldn't let it stop. Not such a hero for me.
If my answers frighten you, stop asking scary questions.
The diffence, of course, is that there is no copied code in Linux from Minix, and while the media may be ignoring it, there were shells found with both mustard and sarin gas.
You might claim it's insignificant, but there was still some found. This isn't the case with Minix/Linux.
Stupid sexy Flanders.
The man is a psycho. Example:
<blockquote>I have been part of the hacker community for more than 25 years now and am one of its most expert historians. If we were in the habit of stealing code, I would know — and I would blow the whistle, because I am a libertarian who believes in strong IP rights.</blockquote>
Every statement he makes seeps with arrogance and self-aggrandizement.
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and enemy of growth. -JFK
Why arguments coming from Tenenbaum should value more than the ones of Ken Brown and his institution?
They are both human and both should be considerated as equal.
Jesus loves us all
This indignant blowhard is the biggest black eye for opensource in existance. Why _anyone_ listens to him is a mystery.. it is certainly NOT because of factual accuracy or relevance.
I mean surely the MS TCP/IP stack, which is heavily multi-threaded and optimized for multiple CPU boxes, MUST have been a port-it-only lifting of the BSD stack, which at the time didn't support SMP at all. Naturally coming up with a high performanc tcp stack that uses multiple processors to work packets across multiple interfaces with next to zero blocking is what you'd get by looking at 15 year old BSD code and just changing the make flags.
Give me a break.
Finding the UCB banner in ftp.exe is one thing.
FTP isn't a TCP/IP stack.
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