Tanenbaum Rebuts Ken Brown

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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Re:US Corporations get on *everybody's* nerves

[dheltzel]

The Patent on Basmati rice (a US corporation obtained a patent on Basmati Rice, which's been grown in India for thousands of years), and even the war on Iraq

They patented the war on Iraq! Shocking!
I knew could could patent a business process, but a war? Does this mean the US Government will be able to extract royalties from all future conflicts.

60 Minutes better get to the bottom of this fast!

Re:the microsoft shills

[ScottKin]

...just like the Linux shills:

Slashdot
OSDN
Kuro5in
Richard Stallman
Tannenbaum

etc, etc, etc.

The door opens both ways, bucko!

--ScottKin