Linux & Open Source Software: The History
Here's an Article written by Phil Tane giving an overview about Linux and Open Source History, all from the very beginning.
In the Beginning
the roots of Open Source Software (OSS) are deep in the 'hacker culture' of early software development in the 1960s and '70s, particularly US universities such as MIT, Berkley, Stanford and Carnegie Mellon and in commercial institutions such as Bell Labs. In those days computers were supplied without an operating system and users had to create their own just to get the thing working. Programmers were few and formed a close knit, collaborative community where code sharing was just the natural thing to do. Once it became apparent that computers had commercial applications things began to change. In commerce knowledge has a price, whereas university computer labs modeled themselves on university science labs, commercial software companies operate on a model more like the pharmaceutical industry where expensive R&D is carried in great secrecy until a valuable product can be released on to the market.
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Thank you for posting this story. It's important to me and any other *nix user to understand where this incredible software came from.
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