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Tanenbaum Rebuts Ken Brown

Posted by michael on from the following-a-story-into-the-ground dept.

Stephan Schulz writes "Andrew Tanenbaum has rebutted Ken Brown's reply to his original comments on the (in)famous AdTI report on Linux's origin. It's quite entertaining, and leaves little doubt (well, even less than before) that Brown is conciously twisting the truth. Choice excerpt: 'I'm pretty animated all the time. But I only get tense when people try to put words in my mouth. After half an hour of repeatedly answering the question "Could Linus have written the Linux kernel by himself?" in the affirmative, I was getting a bit irritated. ... People who know me would probably confirm that I do not suffer fools gladly.' I'd add that being called 'the good Professor' repeatedly would have me exploding in no time..."

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  1. Re:Haven't We... by nizo · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    ... Seen this before?

    You are new here aren't you? After all if it was good enough for an article one time, it will be even better again later!!!

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  2. Re:This may be. by MrBlackBand · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    which came first?....the chicken or the egg

    That's easy. Reptiles were laying eggs long before chickens evolved. Therefore, the egg came before the chicken.

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  3. Uh, what? by Allen+Zadr · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    I think the "institute" exists - it's juat a matter of them publishing the data on a "news" site, and maybe also on a blog site where the masses can be whipped into a Pro F/OSS frenzy.

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  4. Re:Haven't We... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Lol. What is the magical distinction between the slashdotted joke that gets modded funny and the one that gets modded offtopic? Is it really offtopic anyway?

  5. Re:After some head-scratching, an honest inquiry by ScottKin · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    So, I make an honest inquiry, and the Moderation-Nazis here turn my logical questions into flamebait?.

    More proof that /. is the most disingenuous forum on the Internet.

    Anyone care to really answer the questions?

    I doubt it.

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