[aclug-L] There are still some monkeys in the CEO chair

[jeffrey l koehn <caveman@xxxxxxxxxx>]

 Steve Ballmer, the CEO of Microsoft says:
"Linux itself is a clone of an operating system that is 20-plus 
years old. That's what it is. That is what you can get today, a 
clone of a 20-year-old system. I'm not saying that it doesn't have 
some place for some customers, but that is not an innovative 
proposition."
"Some people say it is an advantage that Linux gets built in all of 
these little pieces. The fact is that if you want to do some kind 
of integrated innovation that touches the kernel, that touches the 
user interface--there is no way. Maybe Linus (Torvalds) can control 
the innovation in the piece called the kernel, but there are many 
pieces."

Of course, the "piece called the kernel" is Linux and
Linux is not an operating system, nor is Linux a clone.

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