Re: How innovative is Linux?

[Diego Calleja]

El Sat, 23 Jun 2007 23:00:42 +0530, jimmy bahuleyan <knight.camelot@xxxxxxxxx> escribió:

> building upon or improving existing technology is as important as
> inventing new things. if every one insisted on dreaming up new things, i
> doubt we would've accomplished anything significant (not just in OS,
> anywhere ;)


Let's also not forget that many of the "innovative" features that Grodzan says
Linux has copied to Solaris and other Unixes, were actually not invented by
them. OS/2 already had dtrace in 1994 (it even had the same name), and many
of the traditional Unix features were copied^Wheavily inspired in multics.
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