Guess what I found at http://www.cs.vu.nl/~ast/ast_home_page/faq.html:
> What do you think of Linux?
> I have never used it. People tell me that if you like lots of bells
> and whistles, it is a nice system. I would like to take this opportunity
> to thank Linus for producing it. Before there was Linux there was MINIX,
> which had a 40,000-person newsgroup, most of whom were sending me email
> every day. I was going crazy with the endless stream of new features
> people were sending me. I kept refusing them all because I wanted to keep
> MINIX small enough for my students to understand in one semeseter. My
> consistent refusal to add all these new features is what inspired
> Linus to write Linux.
This is two years after the "LINUX is obsolete" thread in comp.os.minix.
Look for it in ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/docs/misc/linux_is_obsolete.txt.z
(or something like that).
Kind of makes you wonder, doesn't it?
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