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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.
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| 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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http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20081019195737631
Related:
Interview with Dr Andrew S Tanenbaum
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| Andrew S Tanenbaum: A couple of years ago this guy called Ken Brown
| wrote a book saying that Linus stole Linux from me, from Minix,
| and therefore the intellectual property rights are unclear and
| therefore companies shouldn't use Linux because I might sue them.
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| It later came out that Microsoft had paid him to do this --
| and I defended Linus. I wrote on my Web site saying that this
| guy Brown came through, visited me and I gave him the
| [correct] story.
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http://www.builderau.com.au/strategy/architecture/soa/Interview_with_Dr_Andrew_S_Tanenbaum/0,339028264,339273224,00.htm
http://tinyurl.com/3c78xz
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