William Chops Westfield wrote:
> 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

I'd say at minimum that Open Source mentality goes back into
the 1970's. Of course we didn't call it that. I can say this
with first hand knowledge I as I posted my source code to BBS's
back that far. I'm pretty certain that this kind of thinking
went on before that and probably the computer age.

Sorry I've tried to stay out of this, too many 'religious'
folk who only see the world their way. BTW, can you guess
which side of the fence I stand on? Answer is: neither. This
stuff just tools, each tool has it's place. As far as social
agenda's are concerned, well all zealots scare me. Everything
in moderation, even moderation.

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