From: "marina@surferz.net" <marina@surferz.net>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] [OT] linus, the early years
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 21:50:14 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <380-22006332925014244@M2W065.mail2web.com> (raw)
Original Message:
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From: Victor Nazarov vir@comtv.ru
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 00:07:29 +0400
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] [OT] linus, the early years
Charles Forsyth wrote:
>>>Yes. That's right. Whole story (from Linus's point of view) is in
>>>Linus's Just for Fun book. Really Linux was just a terminal emulator for
>>>
>>>
>
>so you're saying it wasn't really `Just for Fun' but `Just for That!'.
>and thus in a way, it was the flipside version of the opposing system's
success:
>the weather was good and some chap decides to go flying that day,
>and IBM, kept waiting, decides: just for that he can go fly a kite, and
they'll allow that
>sprat Gates to provide them with a poxy little program loader.
>
>
Many things was there for linux to be born. And any accident can lead to
it's creation. If Linus wasn't the creator, somebody else would be.
Linus beat one of my friends to the release by a few months... I wonder how
many
others dropped their projects when linux was announced.
-- Marina Brown
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