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Who owns linux ?
flap:
quote:stallman wouldn't have had shit without Linus making an OS kernel
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There's a number of alternative kernels that could be, and are, used to create variants of the GNU system, so that isn't true. And actually it's Linus who wouldn't have had shit without GNU existing, partiularly since the code provided by GNU was a lot more than is in Linux.
quote:if by GNU, you mean all the UNIX crap... >yawn<
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What, "UNIX crap" as in 'the operating system'? Yeah, I don't even know why they bother putting that bit in. It just takes up disk space.
quote:the Linux kernel is so better than that.
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I doubt even _you_ know what you mean by that.
insomnia:
quote:Originally posted by flap:
No he didn't. He created a kernel.
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Yes he did.
Even before Linux 1.x and before he got in contact with GNU, Torvalds could already run some small Mimix apps on his kernel.
That does make it an OS.
insomnia:
quote:Originally posted by Stryker:
it is open. But still owned
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If Linus didn't own Linux, it coudn't remain Open Source.
Any other person could copyright it, own it, and close its source... ;)
flap:
quote:Even before Linux 1.x and before he got in contact with GNU, Torvalds could already run some small Mimix apps on his kernel.
That does make it an OS.
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So what? If he put bits on the Minix system together with his kernel, that doesn't mean he wrote them. All he wrote was a kernel.
insomnia:
quote:Originally posted by flap:
So what? If he put bits on the Minix system together with his kernel, that doesn't mean he wrote them. All he wrote was a kernel.
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He did wrote some apps (for testing).
How useless this may be, that does make it an OS(but not GNU/Linux).
GNU made the first usefull apps (But not everything!).
[ October 15, 2003: Message edited by: insomnia ]
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