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Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2007 00:31:34 -0400
From: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
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To: Grozdan Nikolov <microchip@chello.be>
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Subject: Re: How innovative is Linux?
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Grozdan Nikolov wrote:
> 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? 

Absolutely.  Every operating system benefits from the
cross pollination of ideas that happens on mailing lists,
through white papers and at conferences.


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