Strange article with great Linus quote

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The controversial AdTI has released excerpts from a forthcoming book by AdTI president Kenneth Brown that it says "directly challenges Linus Torvalds' claim to be the inventor of Linux." It says that the study is based on extensive interviews with leading technologists including the founder of the GNU project, Richard Stallman, one of the originators of Unix, Dennis Ritchie, and writer and Minix Unix clone creator Andrew Tanenbaum.

Torvalds has responded in his own inimitable style. In a posting to the LinuxWorld site he wrote: "OK, I admit it. I was just a front man for the real fathers of Linux, the tooth fairy and Santa Claus. They (for obvious reasons) couldn't step forward to admit that they had gotten bitten by the computer bug, and had been developing a series of operating systems on their own during the off season."
"They started to look for a front man," he continued, "and since Santa Claus is from Finland and thus has connections to Helsinki University, and the tooth fairy claimed 'He's got good strong teeth,' I got selected."

While many in the open source community may have taken AdTI's claims for a joke, in an interview with CBR, Brown appeared deadly serious. He said that his research had thrown up doubts about how quickly the kernel was written, Torvalds' own experience of operating system design, and a lack of attribution for Minix.

Post #163,103 by deSitter 7/6/04 3:46:34 PM Reply	Strange article with great Linus quote [link\|http://www.computerbusinessreview.com/print_friendly/378d1d23aee5b0a780256eaa0049ff62\|http://www.computerb...780256eaa0049ff62] The controversial AdTI has released excerpts from a forthcoming book by AdTI president Kenneth Brown that it says "directly challenges Linus Torvalds' claim to be the inventor of Linux." It says that the study is based on extensive interviews with leading technologists including the founder of the GNU project, Richard Stallman, one of the originators of Unix, Dennis Ritchie, and writer and Minix Unix clone creator Andrew Tanenbaum. Torvalds has responded in his own inimitable style. In a posting to the LinuxWorld site he wrote: "OK, I admit it. I was just a front man for the real fathers of Linux, the tooth fairy and Santa Claus. They (for obvious reasons) couldn't step forward to admit that they had gotten bitten by the computer bug, and had been developing a series of operating systems on their own during the off season." "They started to look for a front man," he continued, "and since Santa Claus is from Finland and thus has connections to Helsinki University, and the tooth fairy claimed 'He's got good strong teeth,' I got selected." While many in the open source community may have taken AdTI's claims for a joke, in an interview with CBR, Brown appeared deadly serious. He said that his research had thrown up doubts about how quickly the kernel was written, Torvalds' own experience of operating system design, and a lack of attribution for Minix. -drl
Post #163,113 by folkert 7/6/04 4:15:40 PM Reply	It still doesn't matter. It has been proven to NOT have any Minix derived code by even Brown's hired hitman. Come, on there IS _no_ spoon. -- [link\|mailto:greg@gregfolkert.net\|greg], [link\|http://www.iwethey.org/ed_curry\|REMEMBER ED CURRY!] @ *i_wethey* Heard near the SCOG employee entry/exit way: `Security: We got another Mass Exodus Doorway Jam.`
Post #163,115 by deSitter 7/6/04 4:18:16 PM Reply	of course it's utter BS I liked the quote :) -drl

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