Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754462AbXFYJj0 (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Jun 2007 05:39:26 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751946AbXFYJjU (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Jun 2007 05:39:20 -0400 Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com ([66.249.82.235]:38208 "EHLO wx-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751782AbXFYJjT (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Jun 2007 05:39:19 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=mkBP2gQNqav2Ywz3xKl8m36zKisrSSyEZsBwvOMOzN8v9ZqERHKQOLoK47LBrj/RSq0tfr8Oo8UiYzD8qinGVsqbPpdov7DlkozIOAPSg8jihSrhd/8z2UATbljPL++NziEq18EloeAdUgIXA4vdc/YBOM/4oearGKKN4HjF81Y= Message-ID: <98df96d30706250239va301031n990ced59748d4094@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 18:39:17 +0900 From: "Hiro Yoshioka" Reply-To: hyoshiok@miraclelinux.com To: "Alan Cox" Subject: Re: How innovative is Linux? Cc: "David Kane" , "Carlo Wood" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Hiro Yoshioka" In-Reply-To: <20070623232712.77c1ed39@the-village.bc.nu> 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> <345c044f0706231513u46d870es6539bdf5797b305b@mail.gmail.com> <20070623232712.77c1ed39@the-village.bc.nu> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1000 Lines: 26 On 6/24/07, Alan Cox wrote: > On Sat, 23 Jun 2007 16:13:55 -0600 > "David Kane" wrote: > > > 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. > > I think that is more a product of its time than the software. It isn't > the first openly available Unix-like OS. The others such as UZI and OMU > died because there wasn't the internet in its modern form to keep them > going, share them and build communities. Developed by the community is very innovative. Linux is the first OS developed by very large community. (Bazaar Model) Regards, Hiro -- Hiro Yoshioka mailto:hyoshiok at miraclelinux.com - 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/