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Old 21st March 2014
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Originally Posted by ocicat View Post
..Public domain software has been around for a very long time....
Good point! BSD began life as open source modifications to Unix, circa 1977. And Unix wasn't the only platform that had software developed on open source model.

IBM's VM operating system, like Unix, was a licensed product that was source code maintained. And, as with Unix, many organizations developed and and sharied open source utilities and enhancements that were freely shared to improve usability. (From the late 70's through the mid 80's I was a VM administrator who wouldn't consider deploying a VM system without applying the "CIA Mods" collection. This was a collections of open source software that was managed and distributed for the benefit of the VM community by the VM admins at the CIA. Yes, that famous three-letter US government agency.)

Last edited by jggimi; 21st March 2014 at 01:55 PM. Reason: clarity.
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