Ken Thompson Interview

[Michael F. March]

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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