Torvalds supposedly wrote the Linux kernel. He could have named it anything he wanted. And for the public release he named it Freax. It didn't stick.
But there are certainly large portions of code that borrowed liberally from MINIX.
Borrowed = copied. The MINIX author and Brown's own researcher says that didn't happen. Get that into your head!
Anybody who leeches onto somebody else's work and calls it their own is a parasite.
Everybody remember this day! Bush, our resident Microsoft astroturfer, just called Bill Gates a parasite. Careful Bush, you're going to lose your job.
I never claimed he outright copied code.
Hey everybody, Bush walked up to Linus with a gun and squeezed the trigger. Linus is now dead! Don't try to claim libel. After all, I didn't actually say you killed him.
And for the public release he named it Freax. It didn't stick.
Poor, helpless Linus. He lacked the ability to name his own pile of bits. /SARCASM
Borrowed = copied. The MINIX author and Brown's own researcher says that didn't happen. Get that into your head!
You can't seem to get this through your thick cranium. Borrowed means he sucked up the concepts and adapted them for his own use in Linux. It doesn't mean he copied the code:
Tanenbaum: "I told him that MINIX had clearly had a huge influence on Linux in many ways, from the layout of the file system to the names in the source tree, but I didn't think Linus had used any of my code."
Hey everybody, Bush walked up to Linus with a gun and squeezed the trigger. Linus is now dead! Don't try to claim libel. After all, I didn't actually say you killed him.
Dude, you're unstable. Seek counseling.