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More Responses to de Tocqueville Hatchet Job

Posted by michael on from the happy-birthday-mike-hodnett dept.

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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  1. Re:ESR got a copy?! by Mz6 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Hahaha.. Best analogy EVER!

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  2. With a name like "tokeville" by Brian+Dennehy · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    They must be smoking something good!

  3. Re:Ken Brown will always be welcomed by Bush admin by gfxguy · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Maybe, if you think that (possibly automatic) searching through given files of text is comparable to searching a landmass the size of Texas, then sure.

    Oh... and a note to anonymous cowards; if Sarin and Mustard gasses aren't WMD's, then what exactly are they? It doesn't matter what they were left over from, Sadam said he didn't have any and you believed him... or you were being disengenuous (more likely).

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  4. Re:Ken Brown will always be welcomed by Bush admin by maximilln · · Score: 0, Offtopic

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    Chemical weapons are WMDs
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    How about a definition before you start nutcasing around?

    Your lawn fertilizer could be a "chemical weapon" if you keep it in an unmarked jar in your garage. I don't think the police are worried about you. The mustard/sarin was just another case of finding what they wanted to find. How do they know that some disgruntled Palestinian didn't drop those shells off the back of a recent truck? We can't even guard the US borders very tightly. Who's to say that a bunch of Syrians didn't drive through sometime in the last year while the warmongers have been scrambling to find any old leaky barrel of chemical waste from a petro refinery to label as a WMD?

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  5. BSD??? by LWATCDR · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Did anyone else notice that they use BSD for there webserver?

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