LinuxWorld: Linux Is Being Kicked Around: Why? Jun 13, 2004, 06 :00 UTC (5 Talkback[s]) (6709 reads) (Other stories by Bill Claybrook)
"UNIX code is in various operating systems. In the early 1980s when I was learning to be a UNIX kernel programmer, I picked up a copy of Lyon's annotated UNIX book. His book had the source code for one of the early releases of UNIX from Bell Labs along with a description of what many of the C statements meant. Anyone could have used that code and most likely did.
"So, what is really new here? Basically, nothing as far as I can tell..."