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On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 03:47:15PM -0400, [hidden email] wrote: > I have mixed feelings about Linus. When all is said and done, the first > version of Linux wasn't so hot. The first version of very few things in this world were hot... The more interesting detail, in my opinion, is how fast Linux became BETTER than commercial offerings of the same vintage (e.g. Microsoft ones). > Also, where some people see that he has been a great administrator > and guide for Linux, one could just point out there are a lot of > people who could have done the same thing ...except they didn't. The thing that made Linus different was that he actually did the work. The thing that makes it not "random chance" was that it was his own decision to get off his duff and actually write the code, and organize others to do the same. You mentioned Minix... Could it have been Tannenbaum instead? Maybe, but his restrictive license prevented it, BY DESIGN. Could it have been BSD? Absolutely. But it wasn't... Even after they resolved their encumbrance issues, for whatever reason, developing BSD was less popular than Linux development, despite having a more mature project. I don't worship Linus as some do, and I agree that luck played a role in his success (it *always* does), but I think his accomplishment is not small, by any means. :) -- Derek D. Martin http://www.pizzashack.org/ GPG Key ID: 0xDFBEAD02 -=-=-=-=- This message is posted from an invalid address. Replying to it will result in undeliverable mail due to spam prevention. Sorry for the inconvenience. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [hidden email] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
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