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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Summoning Slashdot... by aweraw · 2004-02-04 16:23 · Score: 0, Redundant

Is this really news? Or is this an attempt to summon the collective UNIX/Linux knowledge of /.

Either way, I hope this kicks some asSCOles inside out...

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Unix History Tree by noselasd · 2004-02-04 20:25 · Score: 1, Redundant

I suppose they want to track it down on the almost individual source file level.
The Unix History still makes a good wall poster though.