Linus is not the Linux father - Said MSFT Alexis de Tocqueville Institution

Linus is not the Linux father - Said MSFT Alexis de Tocqueville Institution

[Martín Chikilian]

This post is for everyone, and specially for Linus:
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/040514/234/71e7q.html
And the message disection:
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20040517002423242

Probably Linus already read this, but I'm very interested in knowing his 
opinion.
Regards,
Martin

Re: Linus is not the Linux father - Said MSFT Alexis de Tocqueville Institution

[Matt H.]

This is just FUD so the author can hopefully increase the sales on his book.

Matt H.


On Monday 17 May 2004 9:22 am, Martín Chikilian wrote:
> This post is for everyone, and specially for Linus:
> http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/040514/234/71e7q.html
> And the message disection:
> http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20040517002423242
>
> Probably Linus already read this, but I'm very interested in knowing his
> opinion.
> Regards,
> Martin
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Re: Linus is not the Linux father - Said MSFT Alexis de Tocqueville Institution

[Horst von Brand]

Look at <http://www.groklaw.net>, there is a lot of discussion on this.

This in _not_ the place for such a discussion/post, BTW.
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Re: Linus is not the Linux father - Said MSFT Alexis de Tocqueville Institution

[Martín Chikilian]

Horst von Brand wrote:

>Look at <http://www.groklaw.net>, there is a lot of discussion on this.
>
>This in _not_ the place for such a discussion/post, BTW.
>  
>
Its seems to be a good discussion topic for me.
I want to know how the Linux community reacts to this kind of marketing 
over the net and how can the subscribers be affected.
I really want to know Linus's opinion about this.
Cheers,
Martin

Re: Linux in the press.

[Richard B. Johnson]

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On Tue, 18 May 2004, [ISO-8859-1] Martín Chikilian wrote:

> Horst von Brand wrote:
>
> >Look at <http://www.groklaw.net>, there is a lot of discussion on this.
> >
> >This in _not_ the place for such a discussion/post, BTW.
> >
> >
> Its seems to be a good discussion topic for me.
> I want to know how the Linux community reacts to this kind of marketing
> over the net and how can the subscribers be affected.
> I really want to know Linus's opinion about this.
> Cheers,
> Martin

Once somebody does something well, many will take credit.
Should somebody fail, the fault remains alone.

Success has many parents. Failure is a bastard.

Cheers,
Dick Johnson
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            Note 96.31% of all statistics are fiction.

Re: Linus is not the Linux father - Said MSFT Alexis de Tocqueville Institution

[Jan-Benedict Glaw]

On Tue, 2004-05-18 09:24:01 -0300, Martín Chikilian <slack@efn.uncor.edu>
wrote in message <40AA0061.8090500@efn.uncor.edu>:
> Horst von Brand wrote:
> >Look at <http://www.groklaw.net>, there is a lot of discussion on this.
> >
> >This in _not_ the place for such a discussion/post, BTW.

> I want to know how the Linux community reacts to this kind of marketing 
> over the net and how can the subscribers be affected.

We are no sales person, so we don't react at all. If they want to sell
their products, let them do! If their customers decide they need
something different, they may want to have a look at Linux, the *BSDs
and all others...

MfG, JBG

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Re: Linus is not the Linux father - Said MSFT Alexis de Tocqueville Institution

[Rob Couto]

> Its seems to be a good discussion topic for me.
> I want to know how the Linux community reacts to this kind of marketing
> over the net and how can the subscribers be affected.
> I really want to know Linus's opinion about this.
> Cheers,
> Martin

more wetware cracking = more ignorant people being led around. someone should 
issue a press release about carefully prepared press releases that do 
something similar to stack smashing, but in brains.

i just wanna know, where are all the non-US companies that dislike linux? are 
they all here in america? would that be a surprise?

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Re: Linus is not the Linux father - Said MSFT Alexis de Tocqueville Institution

[Marcos D. Marado Torres]

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On Wed, 19 May 2004, Rob Couto wrote:

> > Its seems to be a good discussion topic for me.
> > I want to know how the Linux community reacts to this kind of marketing
> > over the net and how can the subscribers be affected.
> > I really want to know Linus's opinion about this.
> > Cheers,
> > Martin
>
> more wetware cracking = more ignorant people being led around. someone should
> issue a press release about carefully prepared press releases that do
> something similar to stack smashing, but in brains.

Well...

After Linus saying that the real creators of Linux are "the Tooth Fairy and
Santa Claus" ( http://www.linuxworld.com/story/44851.htm ), Andy Tanenbaum
wrote Some Notes on the "Who wrote Linux" Kerfuffle
( http://www.cs.vu.nl/~ast/brown/ ) and today made a follow-up
(http://www.cs.vu.nl/~ast/brown/followup/ ) telling what were the motivations
of Ken Brown, President of the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution.

Interesting readings...

Anyway, I think this is kind of an off-topic theme for this Mailing List.

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Re: Linus is not the Linux father - Said MSFT Alexis de Tocqueville Institution

[Felipe Alfaro Solana]

On Wed, 2004-05-19 at 23:10, Rob Couto wrote:

> i just wanna know, where are all the non-US companies that dislike linux? are 
> they all here in america? would that be a surprise?

Who are those non-US companies that dislike Linux? I don't know of
any...

Re: Linus is not the Linux father - Said MSFT Alexis de Tocqueville Institution

[venom]

non-US companies... US companies...
Is the country so relevant?
Simply there are a very few non US company that have reasons to
be against Linux. Most of them simply are non concerned by it, some of 
them are using it...

In US there are more company for whom Linux could be something to worry 
about... But is not something related to the country...

Luigi


On Sat, 22 May 2004, Felipe Alfaro Solana wrote:

> On Wed, 2004-05-19 at 23:10, Rob Couto wrote:
>
>> i just wanna know, where are all the non-US companies that dislike linux? are
>> they all here in america? would that be a surprise?
>
> Who are those non-US companies that dislike Linux? I don't know of
> any...
>
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[IRONY] Re: Linus is not the Linux father - Said MSFT Alexis de Tocqueville Institution

[Rob Couto]

I sent a brief message immediately after that one, about this not being 
slashdot. That was the very instant those router troubles stopped my traffic 
to/from vger.kernel.org. Maybe it'll arrive here tomorrow.

I'll say I only mention it because it seems a bunch of (only?) US Co.'s have 
this big bad attitude toward your effort, and it just sort of upsets me. no 
biggie. and no more slashdot from me.

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