A couple of years ago I purchased a set of four CD-Roms called the CSRG Archives:
"What's The Greatest Software Ever Written? In an article on August 14, 2006, Charles Babcock of InformationWeek concludes ``The single Greatest Piece of Software Ever, with the broadest impact on the world, was BSD 4.3. Other Unixes were bigger commercial successes. But as the cumulative accomplishment of the BSD systems, 4.3 represented an unmatched peak of innovation. BSD 4.3 represents the single biggest theoretical undergirder of the Internet. Moreover, the passion that surrounds Linux and open source code is a direct offshoot of the ideas that created BSD: a love for the power of computing and a belief that it should be a freely available extension of man's intellectual powers--a force that changes his place in the universe.''" http://www.mckusick.com/csrg/ It is the complete set of distributions from the Computer Systems Research Group at the University of California at Berkeley. The compilation rights to these CD's belongs to Marshall Kirk McKusick, one of the original BSD developers who shared an office with Bill Joy. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_Kirk_McKusick "McKusick started with BSD by virtue of the fact that he shared an office at Berkeley with Bill Joy, who in essence spearheaded the beginnings of the BSD system. . . The well-known daemon image, often used to identify BSD, is copyrighted by Marshall Kirk McKusick" Before anyone starts filing copyright infringement claims concerning the vast quntity of unix and posix-like source code modules out there in cyberspace they should run a utility like Eric Raymond's code comparator against the CSRG code. It may open some eyes concerning the true original creators of source modules in things unix-like. BusyBox code included. Sincerely, RJack :) _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list gnu-misc-discuss@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
