Unix

SCO, open source and the world
While a small Utah company launches a frontal assault on free software, the rest of the globe is saying: Gimme some of that!
Lawyers against Linux
A software company launches a billion-dollar suit against the open-source operating system's biggest backer, IBM -- and only succeeds in underscoring Linux's strength.
Public money, private code
The drive to license academic research for profit is stifling the spread of software that could be of universal benefit.
Open-sourcing the Apple
A hacker reviews the beta release of Mac OS X -- and dreams of toppling Microsoft.
Guru of the Unix gurus
A year after his death, the programming community still treasures the influence of Rich Stevens.
Beware of geeks bearing gifts
By Simson Garfinkel
The unknown hackers
Open-source pioneers Bill and Lynne Jolitz may be the most famous programmers you've never heard of.
BSD Unix: Power to the people, from the code
How Berkeley hackers built the Net's most fabled free operating system on the ashes of the '60s -- and then lost the lead to Linux.
Chapter one: Boot time
Part 2: Starting points
Code critic
John Lions wrote the first, and perhaps only, literary criticism of Unix, sparking one of open source's first legal battles.
Letters to the Editor
Apple is too strong to be Linux's lunch; DEA Museum shows only one side of drug wars; does LAPD behavior shed light on O.J. case?
Log: Brief reports and tidbits from the info-sphere
Write free software -- and write it off your tax bill?
You've got sendmail
Eric Allman's free program makes sure your e-mail gets through. Now it's going commercial.
The little operating system that could
Microsoft, beware: Linux fans are hell-bent on world domination.
The dumbing-down of programming
Part Two: Returning to the source. Once knowledge disappears into code, how do we retrieve it?
The dumbing-down of programming
Rebelling against Microsoft and its wizards, an engineer rediscovers the joys of difficult computing. First of two parts.

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