From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <44299781.9060505@comtv.ru> Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 00:07:29 +0400 From: Victor Nazarov User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] [OT] linus, the early years References: <209fcc27592929cdfd60983a157caa35@terzarima.net> In-Reply-To: <209fcc27592929cdfd60983a157caa35@terzarima.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: 2489562c-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 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.