XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-10   
   From: MikeE@ster.invalid   
      
   Frank Slootweg wrote:   
   >    But let's make a similar - but more realistic - 'comeback':   
   >   
   >    "Linux was copied from Unix."   
      
   Copied?   
      
   LT was taking a Unix course under an OS developer (AST) who had dev'd a   
   unix-like microkernel Minix.   
      
   Then LT dev/d a monolithic OS to work w/ GNU which needed a kernel.   
      
   So, if designing an OS/kernel to do the same kinds of things such as   
   system calls that unix did is 'copied', you can say that linux exhibited   
   the same kinds of behaviors in a different environment.   
      
   Linux did NOT 'copy' unix in the sense that word means in the world of   
   *COPYRIGHT*.   
      
   Minix wasn't 'free' of unix code; linux WAS free of unix code.   
      
   LT said:   
   >  it's free of any minix code   
   --   
   Mike Easter   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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