Re: [MaraDNS list] RIP Dennis Ritchie

Sam Trenholme <[email protected]> Thu, 13 Oct 2011 16:07:50 -0500

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> I would say his contributions were more significant than Jobs'

I can tell you this much: I am not using any of Jobs' products right
now, but MaraDNS is written in Ritchie's baby, C, and while Ritchie
was not a big fan of Linux (because of the obnoxious behavior of its
fanboys), Linux -- which I use almost every day, albeit usually in a
virtual machine -- is a clone of the UNIX operating system he helped
create.