From owner-freebsd-advocacy Sat Jan 8 5:20:28 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from typhoon.mail.pipex.net (typhoon.mail.pipex.net [158.43.128.27]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3B8DC14A12 for ; Sat, 8 Jan 2000 05:20:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mark@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: (qmail 7728 invoked from network); 8 Jan 2000 13:20:22 -0000 Received: from userbg92.uk.uudial.com (HELO marder-1.) (62.188.142.212) by smtp.dial.pipex.com with SMTP; 8 Jan 2000 13:20:22 -0000 Received: (from mark@localhost) by marder-1. (8.9.3/8.9.3) id NAA03452; Sat, 8 Jan 2000 13:20:15 GMT (envelope-from mark) Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2000 13:20:12 +0000 From: Mark Ovens To: Terry Lambert Cc: Bill Fumerola , freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD mention on Charlie Rose program Message-ID: <20000108132012.A2853@marder-1> References: <200001080244.TAA24742@usr09.primenet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <200001080244.TAA24742@usr09.primenet.com> Organization: Total lack of Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Jan 08, 2000 at 02:44:16AM +0000, Terry Lambert wrote: > > > Charlie Rose asked him a leading question about "Linux Torvalds > > > has stated that if he'd known about FreeBSD, he'd never have > > > created Linux; what's your reaction to that?". > > > > When did Linus state that? > > Presumably, before Charlie Rose quoted him. > IIRC, what Linus actually said was, "If FreeBSD had appeared 2 years earlier, then Linux would never have happened". Doesn't Linux pre-date FreeBSD? > ar ar ar. Isn't this the sound a penguin makes? :) > > Terry Lambert > terry@lambert.org > --- > Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present > or previous employers. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message -- "there's a long-standing bug relating to the x86 architecture that allows you to install Windows too" -Matthew D. Fuller ________________________________________________________________ FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark/ mailto:mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message