Famous Nerds #23 (cont)
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John Lions
- Professor in CSE@UNSW
- legend in Unix community
- unwitting Open Source pioneer
- founder of Aus Unix Users Group
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- 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
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