Not at all. My position is exactly as quoted by Linus, in the LinuxWorld article, and in the exchange with the useless academic Tanenbaum, because when I read those back when, they made a large impression on me. He basically made a theory of portability and then implemented it - just as you said. All the talk of portability after this is moot - because it was based on wrong assumptions. "Moot" - for the sake of argument alone, because the reality is otherwise.

Whatever, in any case.