Re: How innovative is Linux?

[Rik van Riel]

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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