____/ Mark Kent on Thursday 19 July 2007 08:26 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> Real Open Sourcery
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>| It just so happens, too, that Portland has been an internationally
>>| recognised breeding ground for pioneering open-source activity for more
>>| than a decade. Linus Torvalds, the creator of the original "open" operating
>>| system, Linux, calls Beaverton home
>> `----
>>
>> http://www.wweek.com/editorial/3336/9250/
>
> This statement is wrong in so many ways. Mr Torvalds started out in
> Finland, and was a student there. He did not write the original open
> operating system, he wrote the first viable GPLed kernel. The GNU
> project had already written much of the first open operating system,
> including such key components as the compiler. One could also consider
> that the various flavours of free BSD were also around before Linux,
> too.
>
> No wonder the FSF get a bit shirty about GNU/Linux versus Linux when
> talking about the *operating system* (as opposed to the kernel).
I was planning to share this video some time next week.
http://www.youtube.com/v/GsZH6CTVvYg
RMS is not a popular figure /everywhere/, but here he makes a fair point,
again. You can't treat GNU contribute rs as though they are gardeners while
Linus gets all the fame (some call him a "God", which is something he hates...
rightly so because it makes him unpopular).
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