🚀 go-pugleaf

vojta@math.berkeley.edu (Paul Vojta) writes:

> OK, so the problem is, you can't publicly announce a goal, plod
> along towards an unrealistically perfect vision of that goal, and
> then when someone else fulfulls that goal first, suddenly say,
> ``Ah-hah!  That's my goal, therefore, I can put my name on it.''

Here is a quote from some interview that Linus gave:

    TORVALDS: I think that what Linux really did was that Linux closed
    the circle, and that Linux was the last link in a multitude of
    open software projects. And to some degree Linux was the last link
    because it was -- I wouldn't say it was the hardest part, but
    operating systems tend to have problems that other programs don't
    have, so to some degree it was the hardest part, and that is why
    it was last. And because it was the closing link, it was also the
    thing that got all the glory.

But note how he says "operating system" while he really speaks about
the kernel.  If he is confused, you can't really blame his disciples
to be confused, too.