linux-kernel - Re: How innovative is Linux?

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Message-Id: <20070623194945.0b65de9e.diegocg@gmail.com>
Date:	Sat, 23 Jun 2007 19:49:45 +0200
From:	Diego Calleja <diegocg@...il.com>
To:	jimmy bahuleyan <knight.camelot@...il.com>
Cc:	Torsten Duwe <duwe@....de>, Grozdan Nikolov <microchip@...llo.be>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: How innovative is Linux?

El Sat, 23 Jun 2007 23:00:42 +0530, jimmy bahuleyan <knight.camelot@...il.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.
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