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> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>> Want to Laugh? Another Tall Tale About Where Linux Came From.
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>> | Linux was created by IBM, HP (HPQ) and other former IT systems
>> | monopolists that realized that Microsoft was taking their systems
>> | monopoly away from them. IBM, HP, Digital Equipment (now part of
>> | HP), etc. had banded together for this purpose in the early 1980s
>> | while Linus Torvalds, the nominal creator of Linux and who now works
>> | for one of the groups IBM, HP, etc. put together for its trust-like
>> | purposes, was still in short pants. Ten years later, the consortium
>> | chose a small piece of software code, "forked" by Linus from some
>> | other code while he was in college, to complement the still ongoing
>> | technical development effort by IBM, HP, etc. to come up with "one
>> | Unix." What is today called Linux is the result of that one-Unix
>> | effort.
>> |
>> | Isn't that hilarious? To be fair, those Wall Street dudes are likely
>> | under a lot of stress nowadays. If he needs a job, maybe he should write
>> | a column with "Paul Murphy", who also comes up with his own histories on
>> | the birth of Linux. I see a match. Or he could write for ADTI, methinks.
>> | They tried to allege that Linus forked Minix, but it's a lie. Anyway,
>> | Linus already confessed. The father of Linux is the Tooth Fairy.
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> Not only does the Groklaw article rip Dennis Byron apart but he makes
> himself look a complete dolled up prat in the original article. The
> comments are particularly acidic!
* OOXML Troll.
http://boycottnovell.com/2008/05/16/dennis-byron-on-digistan/
* Tried to equate free software with terrorism.
http://seekingalpha.com/article/77337-google-ibm-red-hat-sun-and-the-digistan-connection
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