From: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
To: Grozdan Nikolov <microchip@chello.be>
Cc: "Jeffrey V. Merkey" <jmerkey@wolfmountaingroup.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: How innovative is Linux?
Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2007 00:31:34 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <467DF3A6.20607@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200706232036.23801.microchip@chello.be>
Grozdan Nikolov wrote:
> On Saturday 23 June 2007 21:18, you wrote:
>> There's a lot in Linux that was true innnovation:
>>
>> Alan Cox's Networking Architecture.
>> VFS Architecture (best one out there -- even better than M$'s)
>> Scheduler Design.
>>
>> Jeff
>
> Thanks Jeff, so from reading all the responses here I can conclude that Linux
> innovates stuff by itself and not only gets it from other places. Is it also
> right to say that other kernels, be it BSD, Solaris, maybe AIX?, also benefit
> from the Linux innovations?
Absolutely. Every operating system benefits from the
cross pollination of ideas that happens on mailing lists,
through white papers and at conferences.
--
Politics is the struggle between those who want to make their country
the best in the world, and those who believe it already is. Each group
calls the other unpatriotic.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-24 4:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-06-23 12:17 How innovative is Linux? Grozdan Nikolov
2007-06-23 14:43 ` Alan Cox
2007-06-23 15:22 ` Grozdan Nikolov
2007-06-23 15:46 ` Alan Cox
2007-06-23 16:12 ` Torsten Duwe
2007-06-23 16:19 ` Grozdan Nikolov
2007-06-23 16:42 ` Torsten Duwe
2007-06-23 16:54 ` Matthew Jacob
2007-06-23 17:30 ` jimmy bahuleyan
2007-06-23 17:49 ` Diego Calleja
2007-06-23 19:23 ` Alan Cox
2007-06-23 21:02 ` Al Viro
2007-06-23 22:13 ` Alan Cox
2007-06-23 18:12 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-06-23 19:44 ` Alan Cox
2007-06-23 17:38 ` Benny Amorsen
2007-06-23 19:18 ` Jeffrey V. Merkey
2007-06-23 18:36 ` Grozdan Nikolov
2007-06-24 4:31 ` Rik van Riel [this message]
2007-06-23 22:02 ` Carlo Wood
2007-06-23 22:16 ` David Kane
[not found] ` <345c044f0706231513u46d870es6539bdf5797b305b@mail.gmail.com>
2007-06-23 22:27 ` Alan Cox
2007-06-25 9:39 ` Hiro Yoshioka
2007-06-25 22:57 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-06-24 21:36 ` Nikita Danilov
2007-06-23 18:02 ` Satyam Sharma
2007-06-23 18:17 ` Grozdan Nikolov
2007-06-23 17:53 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2007-06-23 18:15 ` Grozdan Nikolov
2007-06-23 18:54 ` jimmy bahuleyan
2007-06-23 19:06 ` Grozdan Nikolov
2007-06-23 23:15 ` Jesper Juhl
2007-06-25 15:12 ` Lennart Sorensen
2007-06-25 15:15 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-06-25 16:37 ` Randy Dunlap
2007-06-25 16:42 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-06-25 17:51 ` jimmy bahuleyan
2007-06-26 12:26 ` Helge Hafting
2007-06-23 17:43 Al Boldi
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