Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754180AbXFWWQS (ORCPT ); Sat, 23 Jun 2007 18:16:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752526AbXFWWQE (ORCPT ); Sat, 23 Jun 2007 18:16:04 -0400 Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com ([66.249.82.235]:64532 "EHLO wx-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752551AbXFWWQD (ORCPT ); Sat, 23 Jun 2007 18:16:03 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=ICoL1CyDTV8/UxdpD4PALPipF6SGTj/PkfPbRIngtiCrjyN4z1GSGNUbfhl1TrtKiKe/6nkTvprNg21JgEEQMbhm05PKR18rwcdP0HNCJBDQ3nZx5y8HicTvMAHgz4jk6AZYVL4c8JF3lm6JyZibkQvrJw5LOQMfljlFnc5+DnM= Message-ID: <345c044f0706231516y2c04acfbt342574ba7af0b968@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2007 16:16:02 -0600 From: "David Kane" To: "Carlo Wood" , "Alan Cox" , "Grozdan Nikolov" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: How innovative is Linux? In-Reply-To: <20070623220222.GB13907@alinoe.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <200706231417.16086.microchip@chello.be> <20070623154328.222a2f92@the-village.bc.nu> <200706231722.26931.microchip@chello.be> <20070623164608.05dc5c30@the-village.bc.nu> <20070623220222.GB13907@alinoe.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1539 Lines: 35 The real innotation in Linux is that it is open source and yet popular enough that there are versions that even a windoze user could easily pick up. David Kane On 6/23/07, Carlo Wood wrote: > On Sat, Jun 23, 2007 at 04:46:08PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > Now if you want really innovative OS work go look in the lab or at > > projects most people have never heard of and don't run. > > Hey, I heard of one. I got a few friends that are sitting > in an IRC channel and have been working on a complete new > OS from scratch for like 10 years now (kernel, filesystem, > graphics drivers, libraries - everything). I consider them > to be totally nuts of course. When I ask them why are you > still doing this? Can't you use linux? Then the answer is > that there are still companies interested in operating > systems like that, precisely because they are not well- > known. It would be pretty hard to exploit vulnerabilities > in such a system (or that is their explanation anyway). > > -- > Carlo Wood > - > 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/ > - 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/