On 2005-02-09T22:38:05-0600, Shawn K. Quinn wrote:
On Wed, 2005-02-09 at 09:09 -0800, James A. Donald wrote:
-- There is nothing stopping you from writing your own operating system, so Linus did.
Linus Torvalds didn't write the GNU OS. He wrote the Linux kernel, which when added to the rest of the existing GNU OS, written by Richard Stallman among others, allowed a completely free operating system. Please don't continue to spread the misconception that Linus Torvalds wrote the entire (GNU) operating system.
I think everyone who reads Cypherpunks knows what Linus did and did not do, and that "operating system" in JAD's post means "kernel". -- Certainly there is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never really care for anything else thereafter. --Hemingway, Esquire Apr/1936