Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 23 Jun 2007 16:16:02 -0600 | From | "David Kane" <> | Subject | Re: How innovative is Linux? |
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The real innotation in Linux is that it is open source and yet popular enough that there are versions that even a windoze user could easily pick up.
David Kane
On 6/23/07, Carlo Wood <carlo@alinoe.com> wrote: > On Sat, Jun 23, 2007 at 04:46:08PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > Now if you want really innovative OS work go look in the lab or at > > projects most people have never heard of and don't run. > > Hey, I heard of one. I got a few friends that are sitting > in an IRC channel and have been working on a complete new > OS from scratch for like 10 years now (kernel, filesystem, > graphics drivers, libraries - everything). I consider them > to be totally nuts of course. When I ask them why are you > still doing this? Can't you use linux? Then the answer is > that there are still companies interested in operating > systems like that, precisely because they are not well- > known. It would be pretty hard to exploit vulnerabilities > in such a system (or that is their explanation anyway). > > -- > Carlo Wood <carlo@alinoe.com> > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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