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Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2007 23:27:12 +0100 From: Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk> To: "David Kane" <dakpenguin@...il.com> Cc: "Carlo Wood" <carlo@...noe.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: How innovative is Linux? On Sat, 23 Jun 2007 16:13:55 -0600 "David Kane" <dakpenguin@...il.com> wrote: > The real innotation in Linux is that it is open source and yet popular > enough that there are versions that even a windoze user could easily pick > up. I think that is more a product of its time than the software. It isn't the first openly available Unix-like OS. The others such as UZI and OMU died because there wasn't the internet in its modern form to keep them going, share them and build communities. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.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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