Ken Brown and Andy Tanenbaum
Jun 22, 2018 11:26:38 GMT
Authored by tiger99 on Jun 22, 2018 11:26:38 GMT
Many of you will remember from Groklaw the fiasco where Ken Brown of AdTI was obsessed with trying to prove that Linus stole code from MINIX. I can't remember how that turned out (well, we know the truth, but whether Brown was ever convinced may not have been revealed).
While looking for something much more useful, I came across <a href="https://www.cs.vu.nl/~ast/brown/rebuttal/">this link</a> which has a series of responses by Andy Tanenbaum, and this time he and Linus were in complete agreement! The Brown guy was being even more nonsensical than I remembered.
The early stuff was definitely seen on Groklaw but I can't remember if Andy's later responses ever made it there. If not, follow the link for some entertainment! You will find that the rebuttals by Brown are all dead links as the AdTI server no longer exists, because AdTI no longer exists. But in following Andy's links you will also find some fascinating details about the history of Unix that may not be documented elsewhere, and other interesting stuff.
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexis_de_Tocqueville_Institution">Wikipedia</a> has something to say about the rise and fall of AdTI and who funded it. No surprises there, but I will let you look for yourselves. The Chief Culprit denies funding particular pieces of research, but they certainly did put lots of money in the pot, and their responses are rather entertaining.....
Apologies if all of this did emerge on Groklaw, and I missed it.
It all came out this time because I needed to know something specific about microkernels....
By the way, Andy doesn't seem to like very much what Inter have done with Minix. It might have become a challenge to Linux (mostly Android) as the most prolific OS because it resides in most recent Intel processors or maybe the UEFI BIOS replacement (not sure which chip), where it may be used for purposes that the user of the PC does not envisage. If MINIX had been licensed under GPL he could have done something about that.
While looking for something much more useful, I came across <a href="https://www.cs.vu.nl/~ast/brown/rebuttal/">this link</a> which has a series of responses by Andy Tanenbaum, and this time he and Linus were in complete agreement! The Brown guy was being even more nonsensical than I remembered.
The early stuff was definitely seen on Groklaw but I can't remember if Andy's later responses ever made it there. If not, follow the link for some entertainment! You will find that the rebuttals by Brown are all dead links as the AdTI server no longer exists, because AdTI no longer exists. But in following Andy's links you will also find some fascinating details about the history of Unix that may not be documented elsewhere, and other interesting stuff.
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexis_de_Tocqueville_Institution">Wikipedia</a> has something to say about the rise and fall of AdTI and who funded it. No surprises there, but I will let you look for yourselves. The Chief Culprit denies funding particular pieces of research, but they certainly did put lots of money in the pot, and their responses are rather entertaining.....
Apologies if all of this did emerge on Groklaw, and I missed it.
It all came out this time because I needed to know something specific about microkernels....
By the way, Andy doesn't seem to like very much what Inter have done with Minix. It might have become a challenge to Linux (mostly Android) as the most prolific OS because it resides in most recent Intel processors or maybe the UEFI BIOS replacement (not sure which chip), where it may be used for purposes that the user of the PC does not envisage. If MINIX had been licensed under GPL he could have done something about that.