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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.
"Pay no attentioned to the man behind the curtain..."
Hmmm.
Sending ESR an early copy of the book is like asking Sony to do a review of XBox 2
Analyst: "There is no (copied code/weapons of mass destruction) in (Linux/Iraq)."
Great Leader: "That's not possible. Your analysis must be wrong. Do it again, and this time, tell me what I want to hear!"
Reading Slashdot is ruining my spelling and grammar.
I was just getting ready to send out cheques to SCO and Andy Tanenbaum for $699 each.
Trolling is a art,
Yeah. It reads like a /. post.
Methinks you doth protest too much.
I do, thou dost, he/she/it doth, we do, you do, they do. Geeze, if you're going to troll, at least try to troll grammatically...
You say SCO as an option as if it were not under the control of Microsoft and was infact a seperate entity.
I'm sick of following my dreams - I'm just going to ask them where they're going and hook up with them later.
Writings of Mass Duplication?
"Look Lois, the two symbols of the Republican Party: an elephant, and a fat white guy who is threatened by change."
Don't forget that he also added blindfolds to Nethack! Where would we be without this tremendous contribution?
Keep in mind who that letter was directed to. I would have gone for the modern equivilent of "I am seated in the smallest room in my house. Your article is before me, soon it shall be behind me."
Eric ! Stop posting as Anonymous Coward ! :)
I'm a happy emacs user, so I'm not emacs-bashing, but damn. Maybe it is a little bloated :)
-- Fratz, human
Minix was pirated from SCO! Quick, contact Darl!
Have you read my blog lately?
ESR gets to talk up how clever and important he is
.7 of an ESR.
Yes, that article certainly rates at least
Because the most complex piece of open source code you've written if "fetchmail", Eric.
Don't forget his mighty pythonated kernel configuration system!
I hope Mr. Brown is getting compensated well, because he's soon going to find that's he's completely destroyed his career. I seriously doubt that anyone will wish to obtain his services after this fiasco.
I don't know about that- seems to me Rush Limbaugh AND/OR the Republican Party need someobody of his talents rather desparately to deal with the whole denying Geneva Conventions to Political Prisoners mess.
SJW: a person who perceives an injustice, and while correcting it, commits a greater injustice.
I think he has got a job at Iraq as new administrtor of information and news.
There is a spark in every single flame bait point.
Reading the review by Jem Matzan at NewsForge, I can't help but wonder, if Ken Brown's goal was to either accelerate building a tighter Open Source and/or Linux community or study the how an (online) community would react to a vicious, if not incompetent, attack on it.
There is no way he could have thought the book could have been taken seriously, after all. Unless he's one of those incomptetent people who have no idea how incomptetent they really are (witness WB's Superstar "reality" garbage).
In Soviet Russia, I ruled you
Linus wrote MINIX or so it says herebr>
Get a free ipod.
What would really be embarrasing: Get hundreds of really good kernel fixes from Microsoft coders paid by Microsoft to code on the Linux kernel for a while :)
I seriously doubt that anyone will wish to obtain his services after this fiasco.
Do you think anyone obtaining his services wants a good, impartial report? Well, a good one probably, but definitely not an impartial one.
I'm afraid there is no shortage of fields in which this guy is a self-pronounced researcher.
Just look at the dang AdTI homepage: Economics, Taxation, Education, Technology, Defense..
Hey, the guy has a bachelor's degree in Litterature -doesn't that automatically qualify him as an expert on everything under the sun?
(Hmm... Hey Taco! Re-brand Slashdot! We're not a geek news blog, we're a "think-tank" now! We've got plenty of people here prepared to expound their opinions on stuff they know nothing about. )
Of course emacs is larger and more complex than linux. It has to be, with its linux kernel emulation mode.
Bush must be spending a lot to get address. I've been getting a lot of nice signed pictures also, but they conviently come with postage paid return envolopes. I suggest you help by opening the envelope and send out the postage free envelope with your junk mail of the day. I even printed all of my junk email and sent it along too.
Richard? Is that you?
Microsoft is paying someone to lie to make Linux look bad and windows look good? Say it ain't so! Well all know that Linux was hobbled together from stolen code from all over the world and is a pile of junk when compared to Windows.
Microsoft on the other hand has worked hard to put out a stable, secure OS that they came up with from the start and did not copy any line of code or UI ideas from anyone. Microsofts pledge of using only their own code goes back to the day they sold IBM the rights to their own hand coded DOS operating system. Microsoft worked for years developing this version of DOS for IBM and it was all original work unlike the trash the Linus has hobbled together and unleashed on the world.
Microsoft is now going after Apple for the iPod design that Steve Jobs stole from them and is going to put those rip offs at Apple out of business once and for all.
Bill Gates is the most original thinker and fairest person in the world. He goes out of his way to help companies that compete with him and even agrees unfair license agreements foisted on him by computer manufactures.
Not only that.....but the....I.....think.....uh.. Doctor, Doctor....I think the drugs are wearing off, can I have another shot?
Maybe she is also interested in doing another Brown book? ;)
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