I must say that I am rather dissapointed with the many factual errors in this article and general mis-information, which will no-doubt confuse many readers.

Firstly, Linus did not come up with "the basic parts" of an operating system. Linux is NOT, on its own, an operating system. Linux is, and Linus wrote, the kernel - not any other part. The rest of the basic system was written by the Free Software foundation and the Gnu Project.

It mentions the GNU Project, but doesn't relate it to the rest of the article or to Linux. The article then goes on to mention the "GNU Open Source Project" which is just rubbish. GNU is about "Free Software", something different from "Open Source". See [URL DISPLAY=here]http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-software-for-freedom.html[/URL] for more information.

It is also totally incorrect when it says that you cannot re-sell Linux as your own product. The [URL DISPLAY=GNU General Pu