On Sunday 28 May 2006 08:59 am, suse@rio.vg wrote:
Orn E. Hansen wrote:
This battle started, the very day M$ screwed up IBM, and they've been fighting to bury Unix ever since even by "taking" code from it, as well Linux code. And as I stated earlier, the biggest idiocy the Linux community ever did, was to embrace "Linux" instead of BSD, which they should have. As the Linux code has a very questionable "Xenix" origin, which is basically a MicroSoft/SCO original product.
Excuse me? Linux was written from scratch. It had no connection to Xenix. Torvalds had no access to Xenix source code. You can track Linux's history from the consistent releases and patches posted directly to the internet. By going through the archive, you can literally watch how Linux was written.
Moreover, Torvalds used Minix to compile the early builds of Linux, so you can't even take that angle...
Exactly. http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.minix/browse_frm/thread/e3df794a2bce97da/2194d253268b0a1b?lnk=st&q=author%3Alinus+group%3Acomp.os.minix&rnum=8#2194d253268b0a1b http://tinyurl.com/enhkc IIRC, Xenix was a MS port of Unix combining System V (7?) and BSD. Linux had nothing at all to do with it. Of course, Linux isn't an OS. If you all recall, linux is simply a kernel and can do nothing without a boot loader, filesystem and drivers. :) -- k