Ken Thompson (1943) American computer scientist, creator of the Unix operating system
"Ken Thompson clarifies matters", 1999
“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.”
Ken Brown's Motivation, Release 1.2 http://www.cs.vu.nl/~ast/brown/followup/. <br class="br">The "Linux is Obsolete" Debate
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