18 Apr
2005
18 Apr
'05
8:30 p.m.
could it be this is April 1st related ?
On Wed, 2005-04-13 at 21:05 +0200, Patrick Kaell wrote:
Frederic wrote:
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Update: 04/13 17:24 GMT by T: As reader Daniel
Callahan points out, this is a goof.
"The Register article made up the Torvalds quote.
The article offers the quote and then continues:
'Actually he didn't - we just made that quote up. But what Torvalds really did
say this weekend is only slightly less bizarre.'"
There is even another problem I see. The Register article says:
<quote>
If McVoy thinks that reverse-engineering is so 'dishonest', then why did
he offer to give free tools to a worldwide project whose primary focus
is to reverse-engineering an entire OS?
</quote>
This is simply not true! Linux is not about reverse-engineering an
proprietary OS. Linux is about reimplementing an open standard (POSIX)
just like gcc is a free implementation of standardized ANSI C/C++ and
not a reverse-engineered Visual C++!!!! ;-)
Greetings, Patrick Kaell
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