____/ BearItAll on Thursday 30 August 2007 09:07 : \____
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http://www.zwahlendesign.ch/images/screenshot/unix_desktop_macosx_1600x1200.jpg
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> Thats a nice timeline, I haven't seen a UNIX/Linux timeline written out
> before, then in those early years so many things were happening at once
> that you never thought to look around and put things into any sort of
> order.
Have you seen /this/ one yet?
http://www.levenez.com/unix/
Click the image.
> For SCO, I think the graph makes it pretty obvious that they never had a
> claim of ownership of all UNIX. But at the same time, can anyone see
> Novell's name in that lot, I am happy for the courts ruling in favour of
> Novell, for Linux's sake, but in real terms Novell don't own UNIX either.
^^^^^^^^^
UNIX is the new Linux (not really). Maybe Solaris' component move toward
OpenSolaris and the move from SUNW to JAVA (GPLv2/3) is another nice sign
(wishful thinking).
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