From:	bpmurray*STUFFER*@socrates.cgl.ucsf.EDU (Bernard P. Murray, PhD)
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: Linus Torvalds - a great man
Date:	Fri, 16 Apr 1999 13:35:58 -0700
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In article <3716373a AT exchange DOT surfree DOT com>, "Matt Daubert"
<MattJD AT surfree DOT com> wrote:

>  VOTE FOR LINUS TORVALDS   - Time Magazine Person of the Year
> Linus Torvalds is the founder of Linux - one of the very first people to
> start the age of free operating systems.

Have people forgotten "Love, Ken" tapes so soon?
You'll also have to give more than a nod to RMS.

> Linus didn't think it should be this way so he made his own and
> released it to the public as GNU.

I think you mean GPL and he didn't do this at first.

> This spread to DOS clones, Macintosh clones, Windows clones,
> BSD clones, and so on.

Windows clones?  I hope you mean X-windowing system clones
and not Microsoft Windows clones (WINE is an emulator).
XFree was developed independently of the Linux kernel.
I'm also not very sure about which came first between BSD and
Linux.
 
>  When you get to the site you must write Linus Torvalds in exactly
>  this way.

Clearly they are not running a Unix box :-)

>  At this time that only ~6000 votes!

Maybe if the vote was for Tux they'd already have 10e6.


[other than that, I agree with the spirit of the post]

     VOTE DJ in 2000!

     Bernard
-- 
Bernard P. Murray, PhD
Dept. Cell. Mol. Pharmacol., UCSF, San Francisco, USA

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