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Unix's Founding Fathers

Posted by michael on from the uphill-both-ways-in-the-snow dept.

Dave B writes "There's a nice article on Economist.com about Dennis Ritchie, the genesis of Unix, and the C programming language."

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  1. Re:Stangely by black+mariah · · Score: 0, Troll

    This explains why the GPL is the way it is better than any of the smelly hippie propaganda the FSF has ever spewed out of its noisehole. "AT&T pissed us off, so here's a nice middle finger in their general direction."

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