Painting over the patent earthquake
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| As Microsoft kernel guru Marc Russinovich said two years ago, "The
| two operating systems are very similar from a kernel perspective,
| because as engineers work on problems they look around to see what's
| working elsewhere. So you end up with a lot of similarities".
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http://opinion.zdnet.co.uk/leader/0,1000002208,39284804,00.htm
A comment I have seen:
'Errm, since more people are likely to have seen linux kernel code than
windows kernel code, can we assume that he actually meant:
"We looked at the linux kernel and stole bits"'
My reply:
I know (Linux) kernel hackers who went to work at Microsoft. They saw Linux
code before. Take the creator of Gentoo for example...
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