XPost: comp.os.linux.advocacy   
   From: crude@sausa.ge   
      
   On Fri, 23 Jan 2026 03:03:50 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:   
      
   > On Thu, 22 Jan 2026 19:27:52 -0500, DFS wrote:   
   >   
   >> ... wholesale theft of ideas from Unix ...   
   >   
   > Terrible. Why didn’t AT&T get them arrested?   
   >   
   > And Microsoft simply stole the BSD network stack, too.   
      
   Being inspired by the ideas of others is not theft. After all, one can be   
   inspired by the Mona Lisa, paint something like it and not be accused of   
   plagiarism. As far as I know, the Linux code is in no way borrowing   
   UNIX's, only rewriting it anew.   
      
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