{"id":8299,"date":"2004-05-20T10:14:38","date_gmt":"2004-05-20T10:14:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streettech.dreamhosters.com\/?p=8299"},"modified":"2004-05-20T10:14:38","modified_gmt":"2004-05-20T10:14:38","slug":"torvalds-admits-he-didnt-write-linux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=8299","title":{"rendered":"Torvalds Admits He Didn’t Write Linux"},"content":{"rendered":"

“OK, I admit it. I was just a front man for the real fathers of Linux: the Easter Bunny and Santa Claus. They (for obvious reasons) couldn’t step forward to admit that they had gotten bitten by the computer bug and had been developing a series of operating systems on their own during the off-season.”<\/p>\n

So says Linus Torvalds, previously credited with writing a key componant of the GNU\/Linux operating system. He was responding to claims<\/a> that he plagiarized it all by the Alexis de Tocqueville Institute<\/a>, funded by Microsoft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“OK, I admit it. I was just a front man for the real fathers of Linux: the Easter Bunny and Santa Claus. They (for obvious reasons) couldn’t step forward to admit that they had gotten bitten by the computer bug and had been developing a series of operating systems on their own during the off-season.” … <\/p>\n

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