[Discussioni] Attacco ideologico

[Gian Uberto Lauri]

>>>>> "AD" == Andrea Dell'Amico <adellam a sevenseas.org> writes:
AD> Basta, al solito, farsi un giro su groklaw: <http://www.groklaw.net/>.
AD> Sta raccogliendo il materiale anche di quest'altra patetica storia.

Mi  sa che  questo e`  ancora meglio,  Andy che  manda Brown  in prima
elementare:

http://www.cs.vu.nl/~ast/brown/

E tanto perche' sia chiario di chi e` la colp...ahem il codice:

"Thus, of course, Linus didn't sit down in a vacuum and suddenly type
in the Linux source code. He had my book, was running MINIX, and
undoubtedly knew the history (since it is in my book). But the code
was his. The proof of this is that he messed the design up. MINIX is a
nice, modular microkernel system, with the memory manager and file
system running as user-space processes. This makes the system cleaner
and more reliable than a big monolithic kernel and easier to debug and
maintain, at a small price in performance, although even on a 4.77 MHz
8088 it booted in maybe 5 seconds (vs. a minute for Windows on
hardware 500 times faster). An example of commercially successful
microkernel is QNX. Instead of writing a new file system and a new
memory manager, which would have been easy, he rewrote the whole thing
as a big monolithic kernel, complete with inline assembly code :-(
. The first version of Linux was like a time machine. It went back to
a system worse than what he already had on his desk. Of course, he was
just a kid and didn't know better (although if he had paid better
attention in class he should have), but producing a system that was
fundamentally different from the base he started with seems pretty
good proof that it was a redesign. I don't think he could have copied
UNIX because he didn't have access to the UNIX source code, except
maybe John Lions' book, which is about an earlier version of UNIX that
does not resemble Linux so much."

Attansiun attansiun. 

Il Lions' book e` nuovamente  disponibile in libreria. Colmo dei colmi
grazie  a SCO. Se  non lo  e` fatemi  un fischio,  la samizdat  non e`
morta.

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