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UNIX SOURCE CODE LEGALLY AVAILABLE, DRAGONFLY
BSD 4.8 RELEASED
Nicolas Herry
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2017/03/29
1 UNIX source code legally available, DragonFlyBSD 4.8 released
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Some 25 years ago, [UNIX System Laboratories, Inc, dragged one of the
main driving forces of UNIX, the Berkeley Software Design, Inc, to
court] and sabotaged the most thriving software ecosystem witnessed so
far. In the end, three files out of over 18,000 were removed due to
possible copyright infrigement, Windows NT gained ground, Linux took
off and the [Computer Science Research Group] was disbanded. This
followed a licence change in v7, which forbade efforts like the famous
[Lion's Commentary on UNIX]. How things have changed: [the source code
for UNIX 8th Ed., 9th Ed. and 10th Ed. has been released publicly for
everyone to read and learn].
Skipping back to today, [DragonFly BSD 4.8 has just been
released]. DragonFly began as a fork of FreeBSD 4.8 and is one of the
most interesting operating system design efforts since the 2000s,
which among other things brought us the wonder that is the [HAMMER
filesystem].
Also, [this].
[UNIX System Laboratories, Inc, dragged one of the main driving forces
of UNIX, the Berkeley Software Design, Inc, to court]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNIX_System_Laboratories,_Inc._v._Berkeley_Software_Design,_Inc.
[Computer Science Research Group]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Systems_Research_Group
[Lion's Commentary on UNIX]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lions'_Commentary_on_UNIX_6th_Edition,_with_Source_Code
[the source code for UNIX 8th Ed., 9th Ed. and 10th Ed. has been
released publicly for everyone to read and learn]
http://minnie.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2017-March/009354.html
[DragonFly BSD 4.8 has just been released]
https://www.dragonflybsd.org/release48/
[HAMMER filesystem] https://www.dragonflybsd.org/hammer/hammer.pdf
[this] https://twitter.com/qikipedia/status/846107278780489728/photo/1