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Bitter, much?

  • 22-11-2011 3:01pm
    #1
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    http://linuxfr.org/nodes/88229/comments/1291183

    How many times does he try to drill home the BSD lawsuit theory?

    This is a very revealing article. My jaw literally dropped open when I read
    Being ahead of your time is never good. I published a paper in 1978 on something very close to the Java Virtual Machine, but we never got much credit for it although we were years ahead of Sun. Such is life sometimes.

    I'm sorry Andrew, you're a dick.


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  • #2
    Khannie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,485 ✭✭✭✭Khannie


    Pretty bitter alright. I've heard a few people tout the benefits of BSD over Linux though. Linux is far from perfect but this notion that he has that people avoid it because of having to open source stuff is nonsense. My company does kernel modules. We just minimise the amount of code we put in the module. That's the nature of writing open source modules when you're a closed source business.


  • #3
    PrzemoF
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,931 ✭✭✭PrzemoF


    "Also it is easy to overestimate what companies have contributed. Usually it is things that benefit them directly, like making sure their drivers and programs work on Linux."

    It's called "scratch your own itch" and it works. I don't understand why he thinks it's not good.


  • #4
    Fenster
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,763 ✭✭✭Fenster


    How bizarre! I'm doing some digging into the early years of Linux for a school assignment, and one of the big thoughts in my head was "I wonder if Andrew Tanenbaum is bitter."

    And there you have it.


  • #5
    syklops
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,966 ✭✭✭✭syklops


    They even had a nice phone number: 1-800-ITS-UNIX. That phone number did them and me in. AT&T sued them over the phone number and the lawsuit took 3 years to settle. That was precisely the period Linux was launched and BSD was frozen due to the lawsuit. By the time it was settled, Linux had taken off. My mistake was not to realize the lawsuit would take so long and cripple BSD. If AT&T had not brought suit (or better yet, bought BSDI), Linux would never have become popular at all and BSD would dominate the world.

    I was under the impression that AT&T were more concerned about the code used in BSD. I didnt think they gave a damn about the phone number.


  • #6
    syklops
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,966 ✭✭✭✭syklops


    Being ahead of your time is never good. I published a paper in 1978 on something very close to the Java Virtual Machine, but we never got much credit for it although we were years ahead of Sun. Such is life sometimes.

    Writing a paper on something like JVM is not the same as writing a JVM.


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  • #7
    syklops
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,966 ✭✭✭✭syklops


    PrzemoF wrote: »
    "Also it is easy to overestimate what companies have contributed. Usually it is things that benefit them directly, like making sure their drivers and programs work on Linux."

    It's called "scratch your own itch" and it works. I don't understand why he thinks it's not good.

    Because he's bitter.


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