On Fri, 1 Feb 2002 01:38:07 -0600 Adam Majer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 09:49:32PM -0800, Bruce Burhans wrote: > > Someone asked me what the difference between Windows and Linux was, > > and I presumed to answer: > > > > Windows grew out of the work of self-involved gameplayers, and > > Linux grew out of the work of people > > concerned with using the computer to make the world a better place. > > > > That's my impression, anyway. > > Not really :) > > IMHO, Windows grew out of MS-DOS with influence of Apple OS.
Not just in your HO, but that is it in reality. Anyone involved with PCs since the late 80s could tell you. > AFAICT, Linux grew out of need for an _affordable_ and free POSIX kernel > so that you don't have to spend billions just to run UNIX like > OS. It grew out of one man's University homework, and dissatisfaction with Minix (a tiny, "teaching" clone of Unix written by Linus' Univerity Professor Andrew Tannenbaum. Linus wanted a more POSIX-compatible OS for his 386. Even though the software was GPL, World Domination was not on the Agenda. That came later. -- +------------------------------------------------------------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr. Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA http://ronandheather.dhs.org:81 | | | ! Great Inventors of our time: | ! Al Gore -> Internet | ! Sun Microsystems -> Clusters | +------------------------------------------------------------+
