Salus: "Be ashamed, Mr. Brown!"
Peter H Salus is a prominent historian of Unix, and wrote one of the definitive works, A Quarter Century of UNIX. (I read it a while ago and can recommend it.)
What does he think of the "book" by Ken Brown from AdTI in which it is "revealed" that Linus Torvalds did not "invent" Linux? Salus says on UnixReview.com:
Alexis de Tocqueville observed that it is easier for the world to accept a simple lie than a complex truth.
So there's a painful irony when we're forced to recognize the validity of de Tocqueville's remark in a May press release from the head of the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution, Ken Brown. [...]
As the rest of the world minus Brown has always known: science always builds on previous work, and computer langauges and operating systems especially so. CTSS led to Multics led to Unix led to Minix led to Linux. All without any copyright infringement; just learning lessons and incremental improvement.
posted Thu 27 May 2004 in /issues/adti | link
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