Hi Folks!
On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 02:10:33PM +0800, Sanjeev Ghane Gupta wrote:
> However, this is a slippery slope. I prefer to call it Debian
> GNU/BSD/SVR4.2/T-Baum/ARPA/Buffer Overflow/Linux.
OK ... finally someone has made a substantial point ... I would say the same
too ... Linux is the free UNIX for x86 which got more popular than BSD.
> Please give credit where due, if it were not for Winston Churchill,
> Finland would be a part of the USSR, and Linux would not exist.
Would someone then give credit to ATnT and Bell for starting up the Multics
project ... which later inspired Ken Thompson to design the UNIX system ...
which later forked out BSD which gave rise to SunOS and the likes. And then
obviously ... the NEED for the very smart system such as UNIX grew so strong
in the 'not so rich' hacker circles which finally gave rise to FreeBSD,
OpenBSD and ... ofcourse Linux.
> Actually, I think there should be credit for Adolf Hitler. If he had
> not torn up the Nazi-Soviet Friendship Treaty, the Finns may not have
> got a breather.
Ok ... there should also be credit for the Finn beer company which Linus used
to drink ... maybe to get oblivious of this world just to concentrate on
the Page Replacement algorithms in the VM sub-system ... yikes!!!
Regards,
Gagan.
--
Ken Rules, Unix Liberates, Linux Unites.
Ken => wrote the original UNIX, he rules
Unix => well there is Sun, SCO, IBM, HP ... all running independent businesses
but selling UNIX
Linux => The hackers unite coz it's free ... and more recently ... United Linux.
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