Ken Thompson Interview

[Michael F. March]

Doh!

> Isn't that 3 things?
> Michael F. March wrote:
> 
>> G.D.Thurman wrote:
>>
>>
>> > With Unix in the news I have found myself re-reading a
>> > IEEE interview with Ken Thompson taken May of 1999.
>> >
>> > http://www.computer.org/computer/thompson.htm
>>
>> I had read this interview when it came out but it is
>> interesting to re-read it in today's light.
>>
>> Two things I got from it:
>>
>>     1. He professes to have "gone through the source".
>>        Although he knocks Linux on its inconsistent
>>        quality, he did not raise any IP concerns. Being
>>        one of the originators of UNIX, he would be one
>>        of the best people to make a claim like that.
>>
>>     2. At the time of this interview, he claims that Linux
>>        was VERY unstable.. He must of been running the SLS
>>        distribution or something. :)
>>
>>        He stated that it had a long way to go to be used in
>>        "firewalls, gateways, embedded systems.."
>>
>>     3. He claims that Linux will not be successful in the
>>        long run..
>>


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