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david@m... (David Megginson) writes: >While the term "Open Source" is recent, the community around it has >been in existence for a long time -- it spun off when AT&T closed off >the Unix sources. If hatred and fear were a driving force, then it >was hatred and fear of AT&T, IBM, and Sun that drove most >free-software projects. The practices surrounding open source date back even further, pretty much to the early days of computing. Steven Levy's _Hackers_ is pretty instructive in this regard. Software wasn't always a commodity, even in strictly commercial computing. -- Simon St.Laurent Ring around the content, a pocket full of brackets Errors, errors, all fall down! http://simonstl.com -- http://monasticxml.org
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