Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754766AbXFWSgo (ORCPT ); Sat, 23 Jun 2007 14:36:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754301AbXFWSgc (ORCPT ); Sat, 23 Jun 2007 14:36:32 -0400 Received: from viefep18-int.chello.at ([213.46.255.22]:28793 "EHLO viefep17-int.chello.at" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753668AbXFWSg1 (ORCPT ); Sat, 23 Jun 2007 14:36:27 -0400 From: Grozdan Nikolov To: "Jeffrey V. Merkey" Subject: Re: How innovative is Linux? Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2007 20:36:23 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 References: <200706231417.16086.microchip@chello.be> <20070623164608.05dc5c30@the-village.bc.nu> <467D71FD.3030803@wolfmountaingroup.com> In-Reply-To: <467D71FD.3030803@wolfmountaingroup.com> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200706232036.23801.microchip@chello.be> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 827 Lines: 19 On Saturday 23 June 2007 21:18, you wrote: > There's a lot in Linux that was true innnovation: > > Alan Cox's Networking Architecture. > VFS Architecture (best one out there -- even better than M$'s) > Scheduler Design. > > Jeff Thanks Jeff, so from reading all the responses here I can conclude that Linux innovates stuff by itself and not only gets it from other places. Is it also right to say that other kernels, be it BSD, Solaris, maybe AIX?, also benefit from the Linux innovations? eg adding stuff from the Linux kernel into their own kernels if their licenses allow it - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/