John Lions exact quotation from his book [LWN.net]

John Lions exact quotation from his book

Posted Aug 20, 2003 1:21 UTC (Wed) by neurocrapper (guest, #14025)
Parent article: SCO's proof bogus, Linux advocate says (InfoWorld)

John Lions in the Acknowledgments of his 1977 6th edition
(where he published UNIX source code):
"To SCO Inc. who followed the philosophy of UNIX and gave permission to publish these texts and arranged for the red tape to be overcome."

See this text from the book, iteslf on Amazon here:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1573980137/ref=lib_rd_zi_3/104-4635480-2516727?v=glance&s=books&vi=reader&img=3&jumbo=1#reader-link

Here again, SCO works to insure their code couldn't remain secret.

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John Lions exact quotation from his book

Posted Aug 20, 2003 6:58 UTC (Wed) by stuart_hc (subscriber, #9737) [Link]

Going by this page from Peer-to-Peer Communications Inc. it appears that the 6th edition was published in August 1996, not in 1977 as the Amazon page indicates. A press release from September 1996 for the publication of the 6th edition also describes SCO's help:

The Santa Cruz Operation's (SCO) December 1995 acquisition of UNIX from Novell rescued the book from limbo. Michael Tilson, SCO's Chief Information Officer and President of Uniforum, understood first-hand what a treasure the book was; he helped Salus and Ritchie obtain quick permission from SCO to reprint the book.

John Lions exact quotation from his book

Posted Aug 20, 2003 14:48 UTC (Wed) by rfunk (subscriber, #4054) [Link]

The book covers 6th Edition Unix; there's no such thing as the 6th edition
of the Lions book.

6th Edition Unix came out in 1975.

Lions published his book analyzing the 6th Edition Unix code in 1977, but
it was only available legally to those who had a Unix source code license.

In 1996, old SCO OK'd the official re-publication of Lions' book.