| ??? 02/14/07 14:23 Read: times |
#132902 - Minix Responding to: ???'s previous message |
Jeff Post said:
Obviously you didn't note the sarcasm. Why does this not surprise me? Sarcasm over IP is only 100% effective when RFC 1149 methods are used. Irony apparently suffers even worse. POSIX is a standard, not an implementation. Are you deliberately trying to muddy the waters, completely clueless, or what? Written after the fact to throw some kind of definition around a fracturing commercial Unix movement. Linux is not a clone of Unix. Learn something about the history of Linux before making false statements. Yep. My math is off. As for Linix history... I lived it. I was there for kernel 0.95a. It is a clone of Minix, which was a clone of Unix done by ast because the move to commercialize Unix post v7 made it difficult to use in an academic environment. Had Unix remained open, niether would exist. Both came into existance due to intellectual property enclosure. AT&T took their ball and went home. They took a bunch of the cardboard bases people had layed out, along with a few people's mitts as well. To really understand OSS, you need to read RMS original rants, right after he got told Emacs wasn't his anymore. He's subtly changed his tune over the years, as his philosophy evolved. I don't fault him for this. But most of the Linux people ignore this, accept his revisions, and focus on his sideshow insistence it be called GNU/Linux. You can't understand the sideshow unless you've read the original premise. Rob |
