Gordon Messmer wrote: >> GNU is not Linux and Linux is not GNU, it's just an evolution of a >> movement started by Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie nearly 40 years ago. > I think you're giving Ken and Dennis too much credit. As far as I > understand it, Unix was only distributed free of charge because ATT was > concerned that its monopoly status prevented it from entering new > markets. Thompson and Ritchie were not AT&T, they were employees of AT&T. I am quite sure that Thompson was very keen that Unix - which he developed more or less as a hobby - would be used as widely as possible. I remember attending a Unix meeting many, many years ago at which Thompson was the main speaker. He was accompanied by 2 AT&T lawyers who stopped Thompson answering questions on several occasions. In particular, Thompson was prevented from talking about the graphical system he and his team had just developed - I forget what it was called, something like the Blob. It is impossible to give Thompson and Ritchie too much credit. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
