Ken Thompson Interview

[Rob Wultsch]

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..
>