>2 questions:
>
>1.) Anyone know where a history of this might be?
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/opensources/book/kirkmck.html http://instruction.arapahoe.edu/cis212/unix1/unix_history.html http://livinginternet.com/i/iw_unix_war.htm http://www.mckusick.com/beastie/index.html http://www.salon.com/tech/fsp/2000/05/16/chapter_2_part_one/index.html
>2.) It seems like once upon a time any research that received public funds
>had to remain in the public domain. That no longer seems to be the case,
>companies seem to commonly patent research that is based on government
>funded research. When did things change, or has it always been the way it
>is now?
yah...this is the discussion that prefaced the comment above.
i wanted to use it as trivia for Hacker Jeopardy at the Defcon and BlackHat conferences but didnt' have time to look it up. so, i'll use it next year or something.
>As to Google, it was developed by two grad students; their original
>experiment, and even there original database,
>is still online, you can find it all at this link:
>
>http://www7.scu.edu.au/programme/fullpapers/1921/com1921.htm
thanks!