basic - continued

[Steve]

On Mon, 08 Feb 2010 17:22:23 -0000, Tero Pesonen  
<ubuntu-users at tpesonen.net> wrote:

> On Sun, 2010-02-07 at 23:11 +0200, Rafiq Hajat wrote:
>>
>> All I know is that every windows PC around here seems to be infected
>> with all sorts of nasty stuff. I go to the studio, plug in my flash
>> stick into the WIn XP PC to play some music that I've recorded and when
>> I return home, I plug in that flash stick and find all sorts of .exe
>> and.scn files that should not be there. I am relatively untouched as an
>> Ubuntu user and can clean the disk, but friends using a Windows OS have
>> been severely afflicted.
>> Thank you Linus - may God bless you for starting this whole wonderful
>> movement!
>
> Not Linus. Gnu/Linux was, if I understand correctly, started by Richard
> Stallman in the early 1980's.
>
> Tero Pesonen
>
GNU started in the '80s, Linux in the '90s.  A bit of history here  
http://www.gnu.org/gnu/gnu.html

-- 
Steve