- Credit Where Credit is Due
- Posted by jbailo on November 7th, 2003
You know with all this talk of
who 'owns' Linux and which Company
is buying what and what great
huge business deal is going on,
what I really want to know is:
who are the real creators of Linux?
Is there a web site or book listing
all the contributers to the Open Source
movement and Linux?
For example, running 'man ls' yesterday
in an attempt to figure out how to
delete files in a directory of a certain
date (I ended up finding the answer
in Google ) I saw that 'ls' was written by
good 'ol RMS.
And when I say Open Source Movement, I mean
everybody, from the people who namelessly
contributed to the original UNIX up through
the present day people who are adding
to 2.6.
- Posted by Cesar A. K. Grossmann on November 7th, 2003
jbailo wrote:
Linus is the creator. He has a lot of contributors, most of them can be
found in the CREDITS file that comes with the kernel source.
Contributors to Open Source Movement? I don't know, but you can try to
look for 'CREDIT' files on www.gnu.org, maybe the list of the
programmers at sourceforge.net, the programmers of *BSD, and you will
get a pretty good picture... Look for all the .lsm files on ibiblio too.
But I think it's only the top of the iceberg... Think about all
anonymous programmers that contribute patches and docs and never get
into the CREDIT files...
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- Posted by Andy Baxter on November 7th, 2003
At earth time Fri, 07 Nov 2003 14:59:25 +0000, the following transmission
was received from the entity known as jbailo:
This is something which has occurred to me - like have any of the people
now working at SCO done any of the work on Unix which the company holds
legal rights to?
andy.
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