From: Kurt Seifried (listuserseifried.org)
Date: Sun Nov 21 2004 - 02:29:33 CST

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The beauty of OpenSource is we have this ridiculous'y public "audit" if you
will of what happened, linux-0.0.1.tar.gz, can still be found online at many
locations and downloaded. It's about 10,000 lines of code in all. Can
someone realistically churn out 10,000 lines of code to get a _basic_
working kernel and "system" (I use the term loosely since it was a far from
completely functional system) in 6 months? I'm inclined to believe yes.

What I wonder is if Linus didn't write it who did? And if he'd stolen the
code, I suspect someone would have stepped forwards by now to say so, but
this has not happened. I'm inclined to believe the popular version of the
truth until I see evidence to the contrary, which in all this time hasn't
ever come out as far as I know.

Sounds like a lot of sour grapes/straw man arguments to me.

Kurt Seifried, kurtseifried.org
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