Groklaw Starts Unix/Linux History Project

Posted by simoniker on Wednesday February 4, 2004 @04:18PM from the back-in-the-day dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Over on GrokLaw, PJ and others have decided to create a 'timeline' for Unix and Linux development. The plan is to recreate, as completely as possible, the history of these two operating systems '...from the perspective of tracing the code by copyright, patents, trade secret, and trademark. The idea is that the final timeline will be a publicly-available resource, released under a Creative Commons license, that will assist the community in defending against - or better yet in deterring - future lawsuits against GNU/Linux code.'"

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No... by debilo · 2004-02-04 16:25 · Score: 5, Insightful

Fearing SCO is not really a reason not to do this.

go back far enough, and no one from the time/company/developer will be able to defend their IP...

I don't really understand this conclusion. Are you trying to say that documenting and publishing events of the past somehow aids criminals? If so, how?