Interesting article. I hope, however, that the guy's editor did a lot of work on his published books. His ideas and thoughts were a good read but his writing style rubbed me the wrong way.
The thing I know him from is mostly a famous argument he had with Linus Torvalds back in the Nineties about whether Linux or MINIX is gooder (Google for "Linux is obsolete" to see the wonderfulness). I don't recall it being all that enlightening.
the thing I know him from is when a "researcher" writing a book about "the history of unix" went to interview him and asked a number of odd questions which Tanenbaum eventually decided was a veiled smear campaign set up by Microsoft/SCO to discredit Linus and Linux. he put up a big page explaining what kinds of questions this guy asked him, how he answered, and which clues he thought indicated the "researcher" didn't know thing one about the history of unix and didn't really care to learn.
hmmm. I will have to check out that link, because I'm wondering why he's writing about electoral votes...
Also, I guess I should add that it sounds like there's no persistent ill will between Torvalds and Tanenbaum, and they both regard the whole dust-up as an interesting historical event.
He's actually wrong that everyone abroad saw the invasion of Afghanistan as justified. Or so it seemed to me from reading lefty British newspapers; their columnists were mostly livid about it (and in retrospect, my own disagreement with them may have indisposed me excessively to dismiss their criticisms over Iraq). But the average person in the street might have felt differently.
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Date: 2004-11-02 03:58 am (UTC)hmmm. I will have to check out that link, because I'm wondering why he's writing about electoral votes...
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