"In science it is considered important to credit people for their ideas, and I think Linus has done this far less than he should have. Ken and Dennis are the real heros here. But Linus sloppiness about attribution is no reason to assert that Linus didn't write Linux. He didn't write CTSS and he didn't write MULTICS and didn't write Unix and he didn't write MINIX, but he did write Linux.
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Some of you may find it odd that I am defending Linus here.
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My primary concern here is getting trying to get the truth out and not blame everything on some teenage girl from the back hills of West Virginia."
[^] # Re: C est bien connu
Posté par THE_ALF_ . En réponse au journal Linus c'est rien qu'un copieur... Évalué à 3.
( http://www.newsforge.com/business/04/05/20/1427257.shtml(...) ) :
"In science it is considered important to credit people for their ideas, and I think Linus has done this far less than he should have. Ken and Dennis are the real heros here. But Linus sloppiness about attribution is no reason to assert that Linus didn't write Linux. He didn't write CTSS and he didn't write MULTICS and didn't write Unix and he didn't write MINIX, but he did write Linux.
(...)
Some of you may find it odd that I am defending Linus here.
(...)
My primary concern here is getting trying to get the truth out and not blame everything on some teenage girl from the back hills of West Virginia."