Andrew S. Tanenbaum: Want

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“But in all honesty, I would suggest that people who want a modern "free" OS look around for a microkernel-based, portable OS, like maybe GNU or something like that.”

Andrew S. Tanenbaum

In a Usenet message, 29 Jan 1992.
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“If you just want to use the system, instead of hacking on its internals, you don't need source code.”

Andrew S. Tanenbaum

In a Usenet message, 5 Feb 1992.
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“A lot of other people wanted a free production UNIX with lots of bells and whistles and wanted to convert MINIX into that. I was dragged along in the maelstrom for a while, but when Linux came along, I was actually relieved that I could go back to professoring.”

Andrew S. Tanenbaum

Ken Brown's Motivation, Release 1.2 http://www.cs.vu.nl/~ast/brown/followup/.
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