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Famous Nerds #23 (cont)

    John Lions
  • Professor in CSE@UNSW
  • legend in Unix community
  • unwitting Open Source pioneer
  • founder of Aus Unix Users Group
 
  • in 1975, used Unix source code along with his own commentary to teach OS course
  • Unix became commercial so the Commentary was suppressed (intellectual property)
  • naturally, it immediately became the "most-copied" document in Unix history
  • the Commentary was not finally published commercially until 1996