linux-kernel - Re: How innovative is Linux?

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Message-ID: <467DF3A6.20607@redhat.com>
Date:	Sun, 24 Jun 2007 00:31:34 -0400
From:	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>
To:	Grozdan Nikolov <microchip@...llo.be>
CC:	"Jeffrey V. Merkey" <jmerkey@...fmountaingroup.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: How innovative is Linux?

Grozdan Nikolov wrote:
> On Saturday 23 June 2007 21:18, you wrote:
>> There's a lot in Linux that was true innnovation:
>>
>> Alan Cox's Networking Architecture.
>> VFS Architecture (best one out there -- even better than M$'s)
>> Scheduler Design.
>>
>> Jeff
> 
> Thanks Jeff, so from reading all the responses here I can conclude that Linux 
> innovates stuff by itself and not only gets it from other places. Is it also 
> right to say that other kernels, be it BSD, Solaris, maybe AIX?, also benefit 
> from the Linux innovations? 

Absolutely.  Every operating system benefits from the
cross pollination of ideas that happens on mailing lists,
through white papers and at conferences.


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