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Groklaw Starts Unix/Linux History Project
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.'"
My hope is that the Groklaw project will pay sufficient attention to the GNU/Debian Linux distribution due to its historically important position as a Linux distribution truly dedicated to remaining 'free', and operating within the bounds of a clearly spelled out social contract. These features, as well as the fact that GNU/Debian is maintained not by a corporate entity, but by volunteers, make it worthy of a special mention in the history of Linux. In addition, I would like to see a line-by-line historical commentary on the CVS commit logs for apt-get. That would be great.