RE: Changed to: Interactive Tax

James,

Sure...  If he did something worthy of a Nobel prize...


But the prize for developing a good OS goes to Rochester, IMV...  (In spite
of my harping on areas of weakness.)


Linus DID have a good idea, which was a free *nix...  But he's leveraged
that idea WAY beyond all proportion of the value of the original idea.  He
got caught up in his own hype, IMHO...

Last I heard, ALL changes to Linux go through him.  That's pretty poor, IMV,
but that's always the way it's been in the Linux world, so is the CW...
That's just one symptom of what I'm talking about.


Let me clear up one thing about my previous post...  If I was IBM, I'd
donate the $40M software, too.  Linux has the best "game" in town, as far as
going up against MicroHard...  But almost all the hype around Linux, and
Linus and ESR personally, is due to their ability to wage a "religious war"
against M$...  That has been my observation, anyway...

The OS itself, was just recently exhanced (in 2.4 IIRC) to have DB
journaling.  This was heralded as another GREAT LINUX ADVANCEMENT...  This
is the kind of hype I have a hard time stomaching.  But there's no real
evaluation of OS vs. OS in this industry, much...  That's my gripe, more
than having anything against Linus and ESR...  They ARE masters at what they
do.. which is marketing...  (As opposed to writing an OS, or profound
thinking, as is the CW on these two...  Again, JMHO.)


jt

| -----Original Message-----
| From: midrange-l-admin@midrange.com
| [mailto:midrange-l-admin@midrange.com]On Behalf Of James W. Kilgore
| Sent: Friday, December 28, 2001 5:31 PM
| To: midrange-l@midrange.com
| Subject: Re: Changed to: Interactive Tax
|
|
| jt,
|
| Would you be so willing to begrudge Linus his due, for his work,
| if the money
| was the result of a Noble prize?