ESR's reply:
http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=1999-05-07-016-05-NW-SM
> 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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