On Dec 19, 2005, at 1:47 PM, Peter wrote:

> Linus Torvalds, Tenenbaum (of Xinu fame) and the BSD people were
>  started by the closure of access to unix sources afaik.
>
"open source" had a long life well before this.  See things like
DECUS, for instance, or CPMUG.  The careful wording and codifying
of "social agendas" in to OS licenses probably had a lot to do with
things like the closure of access to unix sources, though...

BillW
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