Friday, May 28, 2004

ESR Responds to Samizdat -- 4:44 pm CST, Update by A.T. Hun

Somebody with either an extraordinary sense of humor or a death wish at the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution sent Eric Raymond 92 pages of Kenneth Brown's Samizdat: And Other Issues Regarding the `Source' of Open Source Code, the book attacking Linus Torvalds and the open source movement in general. Naturally, ESR had to respond. The first sentence should tip you off as to what his opinion is:

Judging by these excerpts, this book is a disaster.

The more I hear from him, the more I like him. Thanks Slashdot.

J.t.Qbe comments: You must not have heard/read too much from ESR, then.

And while we're at it, Andy Tanenbaum posted an email he received from Alexey Toptygin, the man Brown hired to compare the Minix and Linux code bases. You can read his results for yourself. Much to Brown's chagrin, he found no evidence of stolen code. Surprise, surprise. The interesting thing in all of this is that all of these attacks are giving people the opportunity to really look at the Linux source and proclaim it clean. The enemies of Linux may be unintentionally becoming the ones who clear its name.

News for 05/28/2004

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