UNIX Methods and Concepts: Putting the Genie Back in the Bottle (Groklaw)

[Posted June 19, 2006 by cook]

Groklaw presents an article by Dr. Peter H. Salus and Warren K. Toomey of the UNIX Heritage Society, which looks at the history of Unix source code sharing. "Recently, The SCO Group has asserted that IBM negligently leaked the methods and concepts in UNIX. What The SCO Group fails to realize is that, from day one, the methods and concepts in UNIX were out in the open. And, as AT&T found out when UNIX was commercialized, staunching the leakage of UNIX methods and concepts was like putting the proverbial genie back into the bottle."

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