Re: Ken Thompson interview in IEEE Computer magazine (fwd)

John Hayward-Warburton (linux@billabong.demon.co.uk)
Tue, 4 May 1999 11:14:23 +0000 (GMT)


> It's mostly unwarranted, pretty bitter and sad, but if there is somebody
> who deserves our respect at all then Ken *is* such man. No matter how
> strongly we disagree his opinion. We definitely owe him that much.

I absolutely agree. Let's treat this man with a huge amount of
respect. Perhaps he's read old code? Seen badly set-up systems? Not
got much first-hand experience of the Linux kernel? Maybe his
interview was badly sub-edited by the publisher (it occasionally
happens)?

JHW

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