To Judge Recent Attack On Linux's Origins, Consider the Source.

Discusses a recent study about Linux from the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution. Funding for the Institute from Microsoft; Attempt to prove that Linux's Linus Torvalds has always been contemptuous of intellectual property laws; Argument that complex operating systems take years to develop, and then questions how a 21-year-old college student could have created one in just a few months as they claim Torvalds did in 1991; Suggestion that he stole from Minix, an operating system popular in colleges.