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Unix and Beyond: An Interview with Ken Thompson (1999)
- AdmiralAsshat 12y agoQuote worthy of discussion: Thompson: I view Linux as something that's not Microsoft—a backlash against Microsoft, no more and no less. I don't think it will be very successful in the long run. I've looked at the source and there are pieces that are good and pieces that are not. A whole bunch of random people have contributed to this source, and the quality varies drastically. My experience and some of my friends' experience is that Linux is quite unreliable. Microsoft is really unreliable but Linux is worse. In a non-PC environment, it just won't hold up. If you're using it on a single box, that's one thing. But if you want to use Linux in firewalls, gateways, embedded systems, and so on, it has a long way to go. I would be curious how he feels about Linux sixteen years later.
- SixSigma 12y agoThe Unix Room is generally scathing of Linux. e.g. By amateurs, for amateurs - Dave Presotto Linus once stopped by on the plan9 mailing list in 2004 https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/comp.os.plan9/VUUznNK2t4Q[1-25] https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/comp.os.plan9/VUUznN... Boyd Ronin is Boyd Roberts, sadly now passed away - http://www.freelancers.net/freelancer/boyd/ http://www.freelancers.net/freelancer/boyd/ Some of the others on there you can google yourselves. Sadly for me, I'm not qualified to evaluate their arguments.