The Inquirer: Linux, the Movie

"By coincedence, a day after it came out that SCO/Caldera is suing IBM over alleged misappropriation of UNIX trade secrets, a neat visual aid tipped up that can help IBM's lawyers counter SCO's allegations...

"Linux development started in 1991, but IBM didn't become interested in supporting Linux until almost ten years later. Most of the underlying structures and essential characteristics of the Linux kernel were coded long before IBM started to pay attention and decided to contribute. Now a clever researcher has parsed much of the Linux kernel source code and its evolving development sequence into a series of 3D visual animations and posted these on a high bandwidth website hosted by a French ISP..."

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