Re: How innovative is Linux?

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On Sat, 23 Jun 2007 16:13:55 -0600
"David Kane" <[email protected]> wrote:

> The real innotation in Linux is that it is open source and yet popular
> enough that there are versions that even a windoze user could easily pick
> up.

I think that is more a product of its time than the software. It isn't
the first openly available Unix-like OS. The others such as UZI and OMU
died because there wasn't the internet in its modern form to keep them
going, share them and build communities.
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