More Responses to de Tocqueville Hatchet Job

Posted by michael on Friday May 28, 2004 @04:09AM 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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slashdotted alread? mirror please by tsadi · 2004-05-28 04:18 · Score: 0, Redundant

can't load http://www.cs.vu.nl/~ast/brown/codecomparison/. seems to have been slashdotted already.
mirror please, anyone?
ESR contradicts himself by Malc · 2004-05-28 04:26 · Score: 0, Redundant

Is it me, or did ESR contradict himself early on? First he says massive theft is rare and next to impossible... then he casually goes on to accuse MSFT of swiping the BSD code for their TCP/IP stack. One of the rare occurances perhaps, or is he insinuating that commercial companies do it all the time?