2 Jun
2014
2 Jun
'14
8:51 a.m.
Michael Spacefalcon scripsit:
Did Dennis and/or Ken personally wish their creation
were free to the
world, public domain, or were they personally in agreement with the
licensing policies of their employer?
The record is quite clear on that. How the 50 fixes tape got out of Bell
Labs may not be as puzzling as the song the Sirens sang or who blew up
Mallow Bridge, but likewise the question is not beyond all conjecture.
Ken wanted those diffs out there, the more so because they didn't all
come from inside the Labs.
See the seventh page of
<http://cla.calpoly.edu/~lcall/354/kelty_two_bits_ch4.pdf> for details.
--
John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan(a)ccil.org
'Tis the Linux rebellion / Let coders take their place,
The Linux-nationale / Shall Microsoft outpace,
We can write better programs / Our CPUs won't stall,
So raise the penguin banner of / The Linux-nationale. --Greg Baker