[GUFSC] Re: Some Notes on the "Who wrote Linux" Kerfuffle, Release 1.5

[Rafael R Obelheiro]

On Sat, May 22, 2004 at 06:56:09PM -0300, Rafael R Obelheiro wrote:
> [http://www.cs.vu.nl/~ast/brown/]
> 
> Some Notes on the "Who wrote Linux" Kerfuffle, Release 1.5
> 
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> Background
> 
> The history of UNIX and its various children and grandchildren has
> been in the news recently as a result of a book from the Alexis de
> Tocqueville Institution. Since I was involved in part of this history,
> I feel I have an obligation to set the record straight and correct
> some extremely serious errors. [...]

A noticia `a qual o Tanenbaum se refere e' uma alegacao do presidente
da AdTI de que Linus Torvalds nao e' o autor do Linux[1] (que,
curiosamente, nao cicrulou aqui).

A proposito, aqueles com melhor memoria serao certamente capazes de se
lembrar que em 2002 a mesma instituicao (que e' patrocinada, entre
outras empresas, pela Microsoft) publicou um absurdo relatorio chamado
"Opening the Open Source Debate"[2], que gerou fortes reacoes dentro e
fora da comunidade de software livre [3,4,5].

[1] http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1594884,00.asp
[2] http://www.adti.net/opensource.pdf
[3] http://www.linuxgazette.com/node/view/1445
[4] http://www.roaringpenguin.com/adti2.php3
[5] http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/89 


Um abraco,
--rro