A thread from the newsgroup comp.os.minix called "Linux is obsolete" can be read in a web page called
Linux history.
An interesting discussion mainly between Andy Tanenbaum, a well known Professor of
Computer Science at the Free University of Amsterdam and Linus Torvalds. Prof.
Andrew Tanenbaum is the author of several books on operating systems and the
primary author of minix a Unix like operating system. His books were read by
a whole generation of Computer Science students. This article is a must read
for any Linux user.