[NCLUG] open source... [was: RE: some other lost thread]

[Barbara Hayes]

>quent writes...
>
>>  My introduction to computer science and Unix was through the papers
>>  written by Ritchie, Thompson, et al, long long ago.  I still have my
>>  copy of the Bell Labs Technical Journal that Dave Ditzel gave me, along
>>  with the John Lions commentary on version 6 Unix. I think Lions called
>>  their writing style "terse and whimsical". It was a joy to read Dennis
>  > Ritchie's technical reports.
>


This article just appeared in my email - on approximately the same subject:

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/9.12/lessig_pr.html

Funny how they didn't mention any of the Open Source community in it....

Barbara Hayes
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