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"The most momentous product of Stallman's genius, Linux, was the first operating system to feature software that was entirely free." I believe this is not enti
by mixmax 18y ago
"The most momentous product of Stallman's genius, Linux, was the first operating system to feature software that was entirely free."
I believe this is not entirely accurate - I seem to remember someone else being involved in creating linux...
- gaius 18y agoWell, that someone used GCC and the first thing they ran on their new kernel was Bash ;-)
- narag 18y ago:-) It's curious that nobody seems to remember that "that someone" ported GCC to x86.
- gwniobombux 18y agoThat credit is probably due to William Schelter. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Schelter http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Schelter
- mechanical_fish 18y agoObviously this sentence is... flawed. But the most important lesson here is: Every sentence of the form "X invented Y" suffers from the same flaw. Consider "X invented the television": One canonical value of X is "Vladimir Zworykin", but maverick outsiders have a hero in Philo Farnsworth, and every Scot knows that the correct answer is "John Logie Baird". And all of them are right, in one way or another. Or the sentence "X invented the first antibiotic": is the correct value of X "Sir Alexander Fleming", "John Tyndall", or "molds in the Penicillium family"? (And why didn't the Penicillium get knighted as well? It did all the grunt work!) For the really strong form of this argument, google "James Burke connections".