"Revolution OS" (The Movie).

[Derek Broughton]

Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:

> On Tuesday 26 December 2006 16:47, Scott <geekboy at angrykeyboarder.com>
> wrote:

>> 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.

No he doesn't.  Care to define "Operating System"?  By any definition I've
read, the kernel IS the operating system.  Everything else is just bells
and whistles.  Credit _is_ given to those who wrote components of the
kernel that weren't in his original version.
-- 
derek