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Originally Posted by jggimi
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.
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Probably, BSD (prior to FreeBSD/1993) would be a somewhat lukewarm example to showcase early open source, given the lawyers of the megaliths came charging after those folks who were distributing it. I remember the eighties, and I rarely found any source accompanying a program in the PC world, at least when dealing with commercial software. Non-commercial software was only slightly better in that regard. The Unix situation was a little easier. Not much tho... just about anything related to SCO was $$$, regardless of the source availability, which usually couldn't be redistributed.