"Roy Schestowitz" <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Interview with Dr Andrew S Tanenbaum
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> | Andrew S Tanenbaum: A couple of years ago this guy called Ken Brown
> | wrote a book saying that Linus stole Linux from me, from Minix,
> | and therefore the intellectual property rights are unclear and
> | therefore companies shouldn't use Linux because I might sue them.
> |
> | It later came out that Microsoft had paid him to do this --
> | and I defended Linus. I wrote on my Web site saying that this
> | guy Brown came through, visited me and I gave him the
> | [correct] story.
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> http://www.builderau.com.au/strategy/architecture/soa/Interview_with_Dr_Andrew_S_Tanenbaum/0,339028264,339273224,00.htm
> http://tinyurl.com/3c78xz
>
> This is a new interview (not the one posted yesterday).
Other quotes from Andy:
On Linus;
"My faulting of Linus was that he had a good, nice clean microkernel and he
could have gone and made a better one out of it. Science progresses when you
take something and make a better one, not a worse one of what you already
had.
I thought he should have taken and made a better microkernel, fine! But he
was 20 years old, didn't have that much experience; he was a kid and he
developed it differently."
On Stallman:
"I was talking to [Richard] Stallman once and we got onto the subject of
Free Software, and he sort of bit my head off when I used the term
incorrectly from his point of view.
Free Software is software when you have the source and you can do what you
want with it, whether it is the Berkeley license or the GPL, isn't so
important. The important thing is having the source code and being able to
play with it yourself.
And he went bananas and said "No, the license is the most important thing!"
And I said "No, the software is the most important thing, and having the
source code out there and the details of the licensing are secondary.
The important thing is that you release the source code and other people can
use it to modify it as you wish under reasonable conditions; the exact
nature of those conditions isn't so important. He just went ape."
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