minix

• linux'un klonlandığı işletim sistemi değildir. minix'i yazan andy tanenbaum'un 2004'te yayınladığı yazının (http://www.cs.vu.nl/~ast/brown) "ken brown and me" başlığından değişik alıntılar:
  - then he^* began to focus on this, with questions like: "didn't he^* steal pieces of minix without permission." i told him that minix had clearly had a huge influence on linux in many ways, from the layout of the file system to the names in the source tree, but i didn't think linus had used any of my code. linus also used minix as his development platform initially, but there was nothing wrong with that. he asked if i objected to that and i said no, i didn't, people were free to use it as they wished for noncommercial purposes.
  - thus, of course, linus didn't sit down in a vacuum and suddenly type in the linux source code. he had my book, was running minix, and undoubtedly knew the history (since it is in my book). but the code was his.
  - i don't think he could have copied unix because he didn't have access to the unix source code, except maybe john lions' book, which is about an earlier version of unix that does not resemble linux so much.
  
  edit: bu açıklamalar ışığında eğer minix'in yapısından esinlenmek çalmak oluyorsa, minix unix'ten çalınarak yapılmıştır denilebilir.