Ken Thompson Interview

[Carl Parrish]

Thanks for posting that. I have to say after reading Ken's comments
regarding Linux I was pretty crushed. I feel better now esp since I
remembered this was said 4 years ago. I'm not sure if Ken would think
linux is in a better postion now, but he has to see we have more of a
chance now. 

Carl P. 

On Wed, 2003-05-21 at 13:22, Michael F. March wrote:
> 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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