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Comment Re:It's Just In Case (Score 4, Interesting) 611

Microsoft was caught with QuickTime CODE in Windows Media Player. Microsoft got it when they bought a company Apple was paying to write QuickTime plugins and had given the code to them to help do it. Where Apple got the Code to Microsoft Media player from I have no idea.

Incidentally this infringement lawsuit was the reason QuickTime 2.5 for Mac and Windows was released free.

You'll have to Google real hard for this as all the press-releases on it where removed from Apple's site when the Microsoft's investment where announced, but I assume some courthouse somewhere has documents on it.
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Journal Journal: Social history of Unix?

I wonder if there is anywhere a social history of the Unix operating system, a site or book that follows the communities influence of the OS. History tells us Kernighan and Ritchie wrote Unix at Bell labs, but it was the community of Unix users at Berkley that seems to have been the original "heart" of Unix. As far as I can piece together (Iwas born in 1976, and didn't join the internet and the computer community until university and the internet in 1994) Berkley and Bell / AT&T started f

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