Christophe Jacquet — Some notes and links on the Samizdat affair

This page holds a collection of links and quotes about the Samizdat affair (2004). It is by no means complete.

Major quotes

17 May 2004: Linus Torvalds: His confession: "Ok, I admit it. I was just a front-man for the real fathers of Linux, the Tooth Fairy and Santa Claus"
20 May 2004: Andrew Tanenbaum: Some Notes on the "Who wrote Linux" Kerfuffle. His initial comments on the book.
21 May 2004: Andrew Tanenbaum: Ken Brown's Motivation. Additional comments.
May 2004: Alexey Toptygin: His code comparison.
20 May 2004: Andrew Tanenbaum: Comparison of Linux code with MINIX code. Reaction to the code comparison.
May 2004: Peter H. Salus (Unix historian): The Tide of FUD.
27 May 2004: Richard Stallman: Stallman: Accusatory Report Deliberately Confuses. "Linux is not GNU".
1 June 2004: Dennis Ritchie: Dennis Richtie's Interview for Samizdat. On Groklaw.
4 June 2004: Kenneth Brown: Samizdat's critics... Brown replies.
6 June 2004: Andrew Tanenbaum: Rebuttal to Ken Brown.
8 June 2004: ADTI: "Open contradictions" on Linux origins.