On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 18:42 -0600, Joel Schneider wrote: > On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 08:02:23PM -0600, Mike Miller wrote: > > Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > > http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/Historic/old-versions/RELNOTES-0.01 > > The release notes indicate that the linux 0.01 is closely related to > MINIX. Has Andrew Tanenbaum ever suggested that it should be called > MINIX/Linux instead of just Linux? An SCO flunky apparently tried to stir up some dirt in this area, going so far as trying to manipulate Andrew Tanenbaum in an interview. It lead to some interesting essays from Andrew: "Linus used MINIX as his development platform. There is no dispute about that. He also used some ideas from MINIX. But MINIX wasn't original either. Here is a little bit of the history Linux used ideas from MINIX MINIX used ideas from UNIX UNIX used ideas from MULTICS MULTICS used ideas from CTSS CTSS used ideas from FMS In science, all work is based on what came before it. Nothing unusual here. What Linus didn't do was steal the MINIX code. That has been well documented." http://www.cs.vu.nl/~ast/brown/ http://www.cs.vu.nl/~ast/brown/followup/ http://www.cs.vu.nl/~ast/brown/rebuttal/ http://www.cs.vu.nl/~ast/brown/codecomparison/ -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20050310/e70cd460/attachment-0001.pgp