Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 15:22:32 +0100 (CET) From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl> To: Tommy Hallgren <thallgren@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Linus on IRC Message-ID: <XFMail.990210152232.asmodai@wxs.nl> In-Reply-To: <19990210110744.28561.rocketmail@send102.yahoomail.com>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On 10-Feb-99 Tommy Hallgren wrote: > Linus attended to an IRC chat recently, you can find the log at: > http://farcaster.net/linus.html > > From the log: > > <Chris_MSNBC> Josh Bell: What do you think about the BSD project that > is now starting to get more and more support, do you think it will > take Linux's hype away, once more and more people learn about the free > distributions of BSD? > > <Linus_Torvalds-> I actually think that they have been going away > instead of actually making a comeback. And I think they were > interesting projects. > > What an ignorant and unfair answer! I actually thought that Linus was > a sensible and well-informed man. Sorry to shatter dreams, but Linus has been ignorant in a lot of ways. He took Andy's Minix sources, changed them to work for Intel chips, discussed this all with Tanenbaum, Andy does however admire the work Linux has done but Linus has been an ungrateful `student'. I think all the attention has in fact gone to his mind, IMHO since everyone has been `praising' the `earth-shattering' work he has done with Linux he has simply grown arrogant. At least that's my perception on the whole issue. We haven't seen (most) of the commiters and core members proclaim they're the best coder(s) out there and they'll even admit making mistakes. This kind of attitude is only reserved for a small number of Linux people I had dealt with... </RANT> --- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven join #FreeBSD on Undernet asmodai(at)wxs.nl Time is merely a residue of Reality... Network/Security Specialist <http://home.wxs.nl/~asmodai>; *BSD: Powered by Knowledge & Know-how <http://www.freebsd.org>; To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?XFMail.990210152232.asmodai>