[plug] SCO

Trent Lloyd trent at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au
Sat Jun 7 01:31:32 WST 2003


> I think I remember Rusty saying something along the lines of 
> 
> "The big secret about the Linux kernel is that much of it is cut and
> pasted from other kernels"

Actually.. i thought it was more alogn the lines of "90% of kernel code is cut and pasted from other kernel code"

Other kernel code being code from other parts of the linux tree (and his reason for not making bad kernel code, cus someone will copy it)

Cheers,
Trent

> http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=10300314
> 
> regards,
> 
> Chris Caston



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