Linus apparently not the daddy of Linux
Posted on May 18, 2004
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The esteemed, impartial* Alexis de Tocqueville Institute has released a study that claims Linus Torvalds is in fact not the progenitor of Linux:
Their press release provides no proof, no facts, no details, but it claims the author, the head of the Institution, Ken Brown, did extensive interviews with Richard Stallman, Dennis Ritchie, and Andrew Tanenbaum before discovering Linux’s “questionable” roots. Linus, unbeknownst to us, is not the man of integrity we know him to have proven himself to be. Instead, I gather they mean to say he is a common thief, or so the Institution hints, who stole from UNIX.
- Groklaw: MS-Funded Alexis de Tocqueville Institution Attacks Linus, Probably Making Itself a Laughingstock
True to form Linus has responded:
“Ok, I admit it. I was just a front-man for the real fathers of Linux, the Tooth Fairy and Santa Claus.”
Thus begins a characteristically Torvaldsian e-mail to LinuxWorld News Desk sent by Linus Torvalds in response to our invitation to comment on the sensationalist claims this morning that he isn’t, after all, the inventor of Linux.
In other news the AdTI has issued a press release stating that Henry Ford in fact did not invent the Model T because some jackass named Og invented the wheel a few hundred thousand years earlier.
The Alexis de Tocqueville Institute is a joke, but not the good kind of joke. They’re the kind of joke that makes clowns scary late at night when you’re laying in bed all alone.
These are, after all, the same jokers who claimed that Open-sourced Software aids terrorists. Did I mention they’re heavily funded by… Microsoft?