[shadowman99]

Ping. Let's discredit these trolls right now.

[Golden Eagle]

Look I'm signing off for the holiday weekend here in a sec. Where does Brown say that Torvalds "stole" Linux. I haven't seen that anywhere. I see lots of people saying he didn't steal it, i.e. copy exact syntax, but I haven't seen where this guy Brown or anyone else said exact code was copied. If you find it, anywhere, let me know. Thx.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

You are doing great.

From your post #22:

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Sources for this pet project of mine can be found at nic.funet.fi (128.214.6.100) in the directory /pub/OS/Linux. The directory also contains some README-file and a couple of binaries to work under linux (bash, update and gcc, what more can you ask for :-). Full kernel source is provided, as no minix code has been used. Library sources are only partially free, so that cannot be distributed currently. The system is able to compile "as-is" and has been known to work. Heh. Sources to the binaries (bash and gcc) can be found at the same place in /pub/gnu.

That would seem to knock down any arguments that Linus used Minix code.

[Bush2000]

You don't seem to get this. Torvalds had the MINIX sources. No, he didn't take the source code, copy them over to a "LINUX" folder, change all of the copyright notices, and call it a day. That's what Torvalds means when he says he didn't "use" the MINIX sources. But he most certainly extracted the concepts embodied in those sources -- and couldn't have produced his own kernel without that information. Torvalds is not an inventor. He's an adapter. And, if you've been paying attention to what he says, you'd realize that...

Unix, he said, did provide ideas: "Linux has always credited Unix. There has never been any question about the fact that Linux was very open about taking a lot of good ideas from Unix." "I'd agree that 'inventor' is not necessarily the right word," Torvalds said, to describe his role in Linux.