Re: <OT>Ken Thompson slams Linux

[Alan Mead <adm ipat com>]

At 05:36 PM 5/5/99 -0500, you wrote:
>On Wed, May 05, 1999 at 05:29:58PM -0500, Alan Mead wrote:
>> I got this from a friend who works for Microsoft.  Apparently, this been
>> circulating within MS.  I was wondering if anyone had a comment about it.
>> I've never used Linux on anything other than a PC. - Alan
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>
>Let's please not start a flame war here again.

Maybe I'm naive but it was an honest question motivated by my desire to
"respond" to my friend at MS.  So no flames but I would be really
interested in everyone's comments.  I'll get the ball rolling:  

I wonder if, as one of the originators of UNIX, KT is a little unhappy to
see Linux take off the way it has since it's not UNIX.  I mean, if we think
MS might be a little scared, imagine how real UN*X vendors must feel...

And then OTOH, since my experience on Intel's has been radically different
(Linux never dies on my machines whilst Windows crashes if I breath too
heavily), I wonder if there is something to what he says or something I
don't know about Linux on other platforms.  Again, I'm honestly interested.
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