The 100 Most Influential Inventors of All Time

[iv@n]

Linus Torvalds is listed amongst “The 100 Most Influential Inventors of All Time” http://6url.net/bourvj

[Grof]

Možda je Bill Gates na listi 100 lopova svijeta....

[dalibor.klobucaric]

pa bil je sma priznal da je windows ne njegovo, već samo dos.

[Grof]

pa bil je sma priznal da je windows ne njegovo, već samo dos.

nije ni dos. i to je zdipil

[dalibor.klobucaric]

sereš, pa znam da je bil intervju s njim i da je rekel da je digel ideju windowsa.. al z ados nisam znal..
demn lopov..

[Grof]

Pardon, kupil ga je

In 1981, they purchased the SCP-DOS operating system from a company called Seattle Computer Products and modified the software to become MS-DOS. Microsoft made a deal with IBM to develop software for a line of personal computers and MS-DOS was shipped on all IBM computers.

[dalibor.klobucaric]

Eto..

ma glavno da Linus nije nikaj pokupil ne?
On je naš novi chuck norris

http://www.linuxzasve.com/forum/viewtop ... 920#p43963

[pingu]

Linus je malo pokupio ideje od MINIX-a.

MIcrosoft BASIC je razvio d'Bill Gates sa Paul Allenom za MITS Altair , tako da nije sve krađa.

I počeci borbe protiv piratstva:

Open Letter to Hobbyists

By William Henry Gates III

February 3, 1976

An Open Letter to Hobbyists

To me, the most critical thing in the hobby market right now is the lack of good software courses, books and software itself. Without good software and an owner who understands programming, a hobby computer is wasted. Will quality software be written for the hobby market?

Almost a year ago, Paul Allen and myself, expecting the hobby market to expand, hired Monte Davidoff and developed Altair BASIC. Though the initial work took only two months, the three of us have spent most of the last year documenting, improving and adding features to BASIC. Now we have 4K, 8K, EXTENDED, ROM and DISK BASIC. The value of the computer time we have used exceeds $40,000.

The feedback we have gotten from the hundreds of people who say they are using BASIC has all been positive. Two surprising things are apparent, however, 1) Most of these "users" never bought BASIC (less than 10% of all Altair owners have bought BASIC), and 2) The amount of royalties we have received from sales to hobbyists makes the time spent on Altair BASIC worth less than $2 an hour.

Why is this? As the majority of hobbyists must be aware, most of you steal your software. Hardware must be paid for, but software is something to share. Who cares if the people who worked on it get paid?

Is this fair? One thing you don't do by stealing software is get back at MITS for some problem you may have had. MITS doesn't make money selling software. The royalty paid to us, the manual, the tape and the overhead make it a break-even operation. One thing you do do is prevent good software from being written. Who can afford to do professional work for nothing? What hobbyist can put 3-man years into programming, finding all bugs, documenting his product and distribute for free? The fact is, no one besides us has invested a lot of money in hobby software. We have written 6800 BASIC, and are writing 8080 APL and 6800 APL, but there is very little incentive to make this software available to hobbyists. Most directly, the thing you do is theft.

What about the guys who re-sell Altair BASIC, aren't they making money on hobby software? Yes, but those who have been reported to us may lose in the end. They are the ones who give hobbyists a bad name, and should be kicked out of any club meeting they show up at.

I would appreciate letters from any one who wants to pay up, or has a suggestion or comment. Just write to me at 1180 Alvarado SE, #114, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 87108. Nothing would please me more than being able to hire ten programmers and deluge the hobby market with good software.

Bill Gates

General Partner, Micro-Soft

[ziko]

Linus je malo pokupio ideje od MINIX-a.

zar nije Linus uzeo MINIX kao bazu

[Grof]

Linus je malo pokupio ideje od MINIX-a.

zar nije Linus uzeo MINIX kao bazu

MINIX-ov kod je bio dostupan, ali modifikacije i ostalo NE.

uostalom imaš n HOW-u

http://wiki.open.hr/wiki/O_Linuxu#MINIX