As the twenty-fifth birthday of the Linux kernel approaches, it's high time to take a look back at this and other major developments in the history of open source software. Here's The VAR Guy's overview of milestones in open source history, from the introduction of Unix to today's Microsoft-Linux lovefest.
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And before Unix?
No mention of the fact that Unix only happened because Ritchie and Thompson’s employer, Bell Labs, pulled out of the Multics project – arguably the best and most influential OS ever – and they created Unix (originally the pun was even more obvious as they spelled it “Unics”) because they were suffering from withdrawal symptoms.