19 Apr
2005
19 Apr
'05
7:08 a.m.
Hi,
On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 08:37:46AM +0200, Alain Knaff wrote:
Actually, in this case, it was The Register which did
the twisting of
Linus' words...
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/04/11/torvalds_attack/
The actual comments of Linux were not about MS Word, but about
Bitkeeper. The Register however transposed them to Word, for effect
(and later in the article retracted the fake quote... "actually, he
didn't - we just made that quote up." but many people only read the
first paragraph anyways). However, rumor is that even the supposedly
real quote about Bitkeeper has been twisted or taken out of context in
some way...
I sure have to side with Bruce Perens on that one - there's no logic
in criticising Andrew for reverse-engineering BitKeeper's protocol,
when doing the same for SMB/CIFS is fine.
Linus is very obviously only human - and sometimes plain wrong.
Peace and long life, Eric (not pointy-eared)