Re: How innovative is Linux?

From: Rik van Riel
Date: Sun Jun 24 2007 - 00:32:08 EST


Grozdan Nikolov wrote:
On Saturday 23 June 2007 21:18, you wrote:
There's a lot in Linux that was true innnovation:

Alan Cox's Networking Architecture.
VFS Architecture (best one out there -- even better than M$'s)
Scheduler Design.

Jeff

Thanks Jeff, so from reading all the responses here I can conclude that Linux innovates stuff by itself and not only gets it from other places. Is it also right to say that other kernels, be it BSD, Solaris, maybe AIX?, also benefit from the Linux innovations?

Absolutely. Every operating system benefits from the
cross pollination of ideas that happens on mailing lists,
through white papers and at conferences.


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