linux-kernel - Re: How innovative is Linux?

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Message-ID: <20070623232712.77c1ed39@the-village.bc.nu>
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.
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