Copyright © 2003 Eric S. Raymond
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The photograph of Ken and Dennis in Chapter 2 appears courtesy of Bell Labs/Lucent Technologies.
The epigraph on the Portability chapter is from the Bell System Technical Journal, v57 #6 part 2 (July-Aug. 1978) pp. 2021-2048 and is reproduced with the permission of Bell Labs/Lucent Technologies.
| Revision History | ||
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| Revision 1.0 | 19 September 2003 | esr |
| This is the content that went to Addison-Wesley's printers. | ||
| Revision 0.4 | 5 February 2003 | esr |
| Release for public review. | ||
| Revision 0.3 | 22 January 2003 | esr |
| First eighteen-chapter draft. Manuscript walkthrough at Chapter 12. Limited release for early reviewers. | ||
| Revision 0.2 | 2 January 2003 | esr |
| First manuscript walkthrough at Chapter 7. Released to Dmitry Kirsanov at AW production. | ||
| Revision 0.1 | 16 November 2002 | esr |
| First DocBook draft, fifteen chapters. Languages rewritten to incorporate lots of feedback. Transparency, Modularity, Multiprogramming, Configuration, Interfaces, Documentation, and Open Source chapters released. Shipped to Mark Taub at AW. | ||
| Revision 0.0 | 1999 | esr |
| Public HTML draft, first four chapters only. | ||
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