Please tell me you're being facetious. That was only an example of how Brown created a controversy where none existed, and then gloated when Linus said he was right (not "inventing" Linux).
I also created a controversy where there was none (GE climbing Mount Everest), and GE admitted I was right! I won the argument because GE admitted I was right!. Doesn't matter that there was no argument to begin with. I still get to claim I won.
No, I was being absurd.
I figure that if GE can spout his non-sensical absurities, it's only fair that I get to respond in-kind.
That was only an example of how Brown created a controversy where none existed, and then gloated when Linus said he was right (not "inventing" Linux).
I took a quote out of context, and in doing so tried to make a point that doesn't really exist.
This is precisely the tactic that GE has been using. The quote by Linus saying that he didn't write Linux is only relevant when taken in context.
Linus states the obvious. In an open source product with a team of developers, saying that you alone wrote the final product would be dishonest.
But the original Linux code, posted to a news group in 1991, was written by Linus and Linus alone.
There is a considerable difference between the currently available Linux kernel, which has had numerous developers working on it, and the original Linux kernel, which was developed by Linus alone.
GE is taking a statement by Linus out of context and attempting to make the two equal.
And that is no less absurd than my previous Mt. Everest statement.