[antiRepublicrat]

You're actually trying to sell the BS that Torvalds had no choice but name the code after himself?!?

You know nothing of social dynamics. Once the name was started by his friend, and everybody hated his name, Linux stuck.

Not remarkably, his kernel incorporates concepts from this source code, such as the filesystem, source tree, etc.

Remarkably, Linux is so vastly different in internal structure from MINIX that Tanenbaum was its first critic. Yeah, he must have copied everything. It's like sitting down with Mercedes blueprints and coming out with a Lexus.

You finally admit that Torvalds isn't the inventor of Linux.

And Ken Thompson wasn't the inventor of UNIX because MULTICS already exsisted. BS. I guess Thompson was a MULTICS parasite. And I guess you'll never say Bill Gates was a parasite of almost everyone.

I've been very clear about saying that he wrote the code. See #8. Invent another strawman.

Yes, you were very clear and toned down your claims of theft AFTER you were called on it.

Torvalds consulted the MINIX book and had a significant amount of kernel source code at his disposal.

It's funny, you portray Tanenbaum as the poor man whose original work was stolen for Linux, but you don't criticize Tanenbaum for the fact that his OS was just a copy of UNIX.

Along your lines of thinking, NOBODY every invented any OS, they all just stole from the previous. But you won't criticize anyone but Linus for their OS having some sort of ancestry, even those who exactly copied code.

[Bush2000]

You know nothing of social dynamics.

More spin. Torvalds supposedly wrote the Linux kernel. He could have named it anything he wanted. It's baffling why you guys can't even admit that simple fact.

Yeah, he must have copied everything. It's like sitting down with Mercedes blueprints and coming out with a Lexus.

Your posts are becoming increasingly erratic. I never said he "copied everything". Read for comprehension. But there are certainly large portions of code that borrowed liberally from MINIX.

And Ken Thompson wasn't the inventor of UNIX because MULTICS already exsisted. BS. I guess Thompson was a MULTICS parasite. And I guess you'll never say Bill Gates was a parasite of almost everyone.

Anybody who leeches onto somebody else's work and calls it their own is a parasite.

Yes, you were very clear and toned down your claims of theft AFTER you were called on it.

You're a liar. I never claimed he outright copied code. That is your strawman. Beat your dead horse on your own time.

It's funny, you portray Tanenbaum as the poor man whose original work was stolen for Linux, but you don't criticize Tanenbaum for the fact that his OS was just a copy of UNIX.

Tanenbaum ain't the issue. Stop changing the subject.

Along your lines of thinking, NOBODY every invented any OS, they all just stole from the previous. But you won't criticize anyone but Linus for their OS having some sort of ancestry, even those who exactly copied code.

Again, you're simply trying to change the subject. Why do you OSS guys have such short attention spans -- A.D.D.?