From owner-freebsd-advocacy Sun Jan 9 20:15: 7 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mailext03.compaq.com (mailext03.compaq.com [207.18.199.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5972E151E0 for ; Sun, 9 Jan 2000 20:15:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com) Received: by mailext03.compaq.com (Postfix, from userid 12345) id D70CA15200A; Sun, 9 Jan 2000 22:15:01 -0600 (CST) Received: from mailint11.im.hou.compaq.com (mailint11.compaq.com [207.18.199.189]) by mailext03.compaq.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1201148506; Sun, 9 Jan 2000 22:15:01 -0600 (CST) Received: by mailint11.im.hou.compaq.com (Postfix, from userid 12345) id 7D84255F02; Sun, 9 Jan 2000 22:14:54 -0600 (CST) Received: from mojave.worldwide.lemis.com (unknown [16.158.59.135]) by mailint11.im.hou.compaq.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B13252D01; Sun, 9 Jan 2000 22:14:52 -0600 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by mojave.worldwide.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id QAA00659; Sun, 9 Jan 2000 16:49:03 +0800 (SGT) (envelope-from grog) Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2000 16:49:03 +0800 From: Greg Lehey To: Mark Ovens Cc: Terry Lambert , Bill Fumerola , freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD mention on Charlie Rose program Message-ID: <20000109164902.C515@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com> Reply-To: Greg Lehey References: <200001080244.TAA24742@usr09.primenet.com> <20000108132012.A2853@marder-1> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <20000108132012.A2853@marder-1>; from mark@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org on Sat, Jan 08, 2000 at 01:20:12PM +0000 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Saturday, 8 January 2000 at 13:20:12 +0000, Mark Ovens wrote: > On Sat, Jan 08, 2000 at 02:44:16AM +0000, Terry Lambert wrote: >>>> Charlie Rose asked him a leading question about "Linux Torvalds >>>> has stated that if he'd known about FreeBSD, he'd never have >>>> created Linux; what's your reaction to that?". >>> >>> When did Linus state that? >> >> Presumably, before Charlie Rose quoted him. >> > > IIRC, what Linus actually said was, "If FreeBSD had appeared 2 years > earlier, then Linux would never have happened". This is closer to what I recall. > Doesn't Linux pre-date FreeBSD? Yes. This statement might have done, too. I think he was referring to freely available BSD in general. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message