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Reference material by Wikibooks contributors. This retains its source identity and is not 411 news reporting.
The sources of information that can be documented will be documented here. Some information however is within the head of the writer and the source is lost to time.
Websites:
Éric Lévénez's History of Unix page. - Used to track down websites and dates.
NetBSD's History page
Sun's History page
The GNU website
FreeBSD's BSD Family Tree
Bell Lab's Oral History of Unix
Lucent Technologies History of Unix
The Open Group's Unix History
Tom Van Vleck's Unix and Multics article
USL versus BSDi information page
an Archived e-mail - Caldera's release of old UNIX code.
The Open Source Initiative
Quasijarus' website - an excellent resource on the stance of the project and its goals.
the FreeBSD website
the DragonFlyBSD website
the NetBSD website
the OpenBSD website
The Register - home of a few choice quotes
How To Become A Hacker - by Eric Steven Raymond
Books:
Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution - Published by O'Reilly & Associates, Inc.
Contributors:
DouglasGreen - Proof reading and editing.
Special Thanks:
Michael Sokolov, the Developer of 4.3BSD-Quasijarus, who spoke with Nate via e-mail.
google.com, which was an excellent tool to help track some quotes and information sources.
License:
This wikibook in all that was contributed by Nate Montague, the base writer, is released as public domain for anyone to do as they wish with. Nate does not support the ideals nor the means of the GNU movement, he believes in true freedom, not forced cooperation and needless restrictions.