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Ken Brown Responds to His Critics
An anonymous reader writes "Yes, I know it's getting boring by now, but the truth must be told... the latest Unix celebrity to come forward and criticise Ken Brown/ADTI is Unix pioneer Dennis Ritchie. The gist is that Brown is claiming an 'extensive interview' with Ritchie but this was actually limited to a single email exchange and a follow-up call from one of Brown's lackeys checking one or two facts." Reader markrages writes "Ken Brown (of the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution) replies to his critics. Dr. Tanenbaum is an 'animated, but tense individual about the topic of rights and attribution'. The GNU/Linux naming issue also makes an appearance."
A village is out there, crying, like baby jesus, because it's idiot ran away...please send him back.
Ken Brown was recently offered a position at the Jason Blair Institute for Fabrication and Fraud. Officially duties include making up interview transcripts and inventing names for alleged contributers.
It's more like internationally laughed at for approving anything that shows up on its doorstep and not even checking its own database for conflicts.
Well, I don't disagree that the United States is the home of the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
I'm a little iffy on the "...internationally respected agency..." part, though
Karma: Chameleon - mostly influenced by bad '80s New Wave music
Please... noone visit the AdTI website... we wouldn't want Mr Brown to think that his web site is being attacked again, would we? :)
But as soon as we DO find the sharpest knife, I can guarantee you we'll make sure it gets to him. >:)
But there is another kind of evil that we must fear most... and that is the indifference of good men.
Loser, Idiot, Nobody.
Don't you mean "Lose, Idiot, Noone"?
Karma: Non-Heinous
1. Observe thousands of geeks rage-filled reaction to SCO Linux IP claims. 2. Write poorly-researched, inflammatory book claiming Linus the Chosen One did not, in fact write the Linux kernel. 3. Thousands and thousands and thousands of pissed-off Linux zealots buy said book, in order to debunk it, burn it, sit it on the shelf and laugh at it, whatever... 4. Profit!!! I think the author probably saw an exploitable reaction in the Linux community and wrote this book in order to, um, exploit it... I wonder if the same strategy would work in other formats? I could write a book called "Eating Puppies", do the talk show circuit, and as long as I was not shot or something, the book would sell a million copies! I'm a genius! *starts typing up first draft*
Styrofoam IS biodegradable, you're just impatient!
Kind of like /. ;-)
Check out this, though:
Yet Tanenbaum vehemently insists that Torvalds wrote Linux from scratch, which means from a blank computer screen to most people. No books, no resources, no notes...
So, what he's apparently claiming is that Linux is stolen code because Linus used BOOKS when he wrote it.
All true hackers were born with knowledge of C. Anyone who had to read a book about it is a thief.
f1rst p4t3nt!
When it comes to a choice between trying to reason with a liar and defending our ability to feed our children, we'll take the children every time.
Thank God somebody is thinking about the children!!!
Anything worth doing is worth doing badly -- G.K. Chesterton
My favorite guote of all:
However, building a product that starts with the accomplishment of others and announcing it as completely your own work product, is not invention, nor is it innovation. Innovation can only work properly if innovators properly credit the work of others, especially if the innovator has decided to introduce the product into the marketplace for commercial gain.
So are they saying that Bill Gates has a problem?
Yet Tanenbaum vehemently insists that Torvalds wrote Linux from scratch, which means from a blank computer screen to most people. No books, no resources, no notes -- certainly not a line of source code to borrow from, or to be tempted to borrow from.
He has a point there, Linus would to have at least copy from the first kernel which was created by God.
What you think a bunch a computer scientists created a kernel without ever seeing a kernel before? That is of course impossible.
at some point, many, many years ago, say 40, a hand-written kernel was booted that was written in assembler.
Correct.
Not once.
Many times.
Most of 'em lost in the dust of history.
You haven't lived until you've keypunched EBCDIC machine language into an IPL deck.
Don't forget that all this code is stolen from corporations like IBM. Billions of dollars of IP were stolen from IBM and given over to Linux. IBM stole that IP from itself and then gave it to Linux.
It's exactly like when my sister bought me a birthday gift at CompUSA, and then stole it from herself and handed it to me at my birthday party. She paid for it, so clearly it's her property, and since it's in my posession now, I'm holding stolen property. This makes me a thief and my sister an accessory to theft.
" No, the best way to prepare is to write programs, and to study great programs that other people have written. In my case, I went to the garbage cans at the Computer Science Center and I fished out listings of their operating system."
- Bill Gates, from "Programmers at Work" by Microsoft Press.
You reading this, Mr Brown?
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In related news, AdTI announces more shocking research results. "After our discovery of the hybrid source nature of Linux we extended our research into other fields," an AdTI spokesperson said. He continued: "In the beginning we were just curious whether hybrid source concepts could be found in other fields as well. But soon we learned that the entire history of mankind would have taken a different turn, had hybrid source not been allowed to spread for so many years." While only excerpts of AdTI's upcoming book have been published yet, one can see the big picture already.
The shocking findings of AdTI include:
Where would mankind stand today if there had been appropriate protection of intellectual assets throughout history? The AdTI spokesperson refused to comment on this question, emphasizing that AdTI is doing sound research, not writing science fiction. However, their results give "clear indication that hybrid source is linked to war, murder, and terrorism. For instance, Adolf Hitler impossibly could have invented mass murder and world war from scratch, and Osama bin Laden is not the inventor of terrorism."
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So I think it's absolutely absurd for Brown to argue he is the "author" of his own "book". Clearly he just copied from more original work, perhaps the Whitewater stories, or maybe he went further, back to the "journalist" who "exposed" the Protocols of the Elders of Zion.
You are not alone. This is not normal. None of this is normal.