21 Feb
2017
21 Feb
'17
9:37 p.m.
On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 11:30:34AM +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote:
Larry McVoy <lm(a)mcvoy.com> wrote:
Linus attacks anyone who he thinks is misguided. He's been wrong but
he's usually right.
I've worked with Linus, I know him pretty
well. I stand by my description
above and nothing you've said has changed (and isn't likely to).
I know him as well, he send various personal attacks against me. As Linux personally and incorrectly claimed that I was
talking about kernel
internal interfaces even though I was definitely talking about
kernel/userspace interfaces, I assume that he has a problem with understanding
what an external interface is.
Yeah, uh huh. If it makes you feel better to say stuff like that, go
for it. You do realize it doesn't reflect well on you, right? The
guy is a pretty darn good kernel engineer, I think he knows what a
kernel/userspace interface is. It's a big part of the job description.
You may have started with Linux later than I did - I
started in 1996.
Was running Linux well before that, I ran it when you booted off of
floppies and there was no networking. I don't know when I started but
this was in 1993:
http://www.mcvoy.com/lm/bitmover/lm/papers/srcos.html
and I'm sure I'd been running it for quite a while by that time.