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Re: What's the easiest and/or simplest part of Linux Kernel?



On Sun, 27 Oct 2013 21:37:28 -0400
Jerry Stuckle <jstuckle@attglobal.net> wrote:

...

> Since you brought it up - who do you think wrote Windows?  A bunch of 
> academics?  Or Linux?  Or OS/2?  Or MacOS?  Or Z-OS?

Didn't Linus initially create linux while a university student? And I
believe that the GNU tools / Free Software Movement were products of
Stallman and other MIT academics.

> How about Oracle Database?  SQL?  DB2?  MySQL?  More academics?
> 
> How about C, C++, Pascal, COBOL and Fortran compilers?  Or maybe PERL, 

gcc was largely written by Stallman, an academic.

Celejar


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