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Groklaw Starts Unix/Linux History Project

Posted by simoniker on 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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  1. One day in history... by Badanov · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    On or about 12 January, 2004, slashdot user badanov joined the ranks of the damned...

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  2. This has already been done by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    This has already been done here and if I'm not mistaken, SCO is right... (haha, made you look!).

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  4. Re:Score another victory for Creative Commons by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  5. Re:I'm amazed... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Apparently posting was broken for a while while this story was at the top of the page (clicking the Reply or Change button reloaded the front page), then Slashdot disappeared completely for some time (I was getting 503, I think).