Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 23 Jun 2007 19:49:45 +0200 | From | Diego Calleja <> | Subject | Re: How innovative is Linux? |
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El Sat, 23 Jun 2007 23:00:42 +0530, jimmy bahuleyan <knight.camelot@gmail.com> escribió:
> building upon or improving existing technology is as important as > inventing new things. if every one insisted on dreaming up new things, i > doubt we would've accomplished anything significant (not just in OS, > anywhere ;)
Let's also not forget that many of the "innovative" features that Grodzan says Linux has copied to Solaris and other Unixes, were actually not invented by them. OS/2 already had dtrace in 1994 (it even had the same name), and many of the traditional Unix features were copied^Wheavily inspired in multics. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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