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.

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Ken Brown will always be welcomed by Bush admin

[chmilar]

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!"

That's a relief.

[grub]

I was just getting ready to send out cheques to SCO and Andy Tanenbaum for $699 each.

Re:Does anybody else find ESR's writing style odd?

[Anonymous Coward]

Yeah. It reads like a /. post.

Re:Sorry but

[Anonymous Coward]

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...

WMD?

[FerretFrottage]

Writings of Mass Duplication?

Re:ESR got a copy?!

[phearlez]

Maybe it falls under the approach of "there's no such thing as bad publicity" - lord knows ESR won't miss an opportunity to write something where he can work in a way to mention "The Cathedral and the Bazaar." I'm amazed it took him over 1,000 words to get around to it this time.

Re:'pay no attention to this man'

[Saeed al-Sahaf]

Actually, no. I was wondering who this Alexis is, and where I can get some of her world famous tacos.