Groklaw: Speaking of Methods and Concepts and John Lions

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jun 7, 2006

“That is another way of saying that the methods and concepts of
Unix were used to educate the world’s computer programmers, that
they were encouraged to use it, to learn its methods and concepts,
and to use them in the real world as they developed software. Today
newSCO would have us believe that methods and concepts were
carefully controlled at all times, subject to NDAs throughout
history, but you can see from this preface that isn’t so.

“That last part, about the circulation being limited, was only
partly true…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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