"Revolution OS" (The Movie).

Sridhar Dhanapalan sridhar at dhanapalan.com
Thu Dec 28 02:16:47 GMT 2006


On Tuesday 26 December 2006 16:47, Scott <geekboy at angrykeyboarder.com> wrote:
> Mario Vukelic wrote:
> > On Tue, 2006-12-19 at 03:03 -0700, Scott wrote:
> >> The movie was about "Linux" it
> >> wasn't about "Free Software".
> >
> > The movie is called "Revolution OS". Linux is not an OS.
>
> I *knew* someone would respond with that.  Well guess what? I'm willing to
> bet the director/producer/whomever had "The Linux OS" in mind when they
> came up with that title.
>
> I suppose that's why Tux is on the cover of the DVD case.....
>
> Half of the planet that knows Linux refers to it as an operating system.
> They are technically wrong, but who really cares?  Linus doesn't...

Of course Linus doesn't. He prefers that people think that he wrote an entire 
operating system. Wouldn't you?

With all respect to Linus and his accomplishments, he needs to stop pretending 
that he wrote an operating system and give credit where credit's due.


-- 
	Which came first, the language or the compiler?
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