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• Subject: re: Microsoft-phobia and the non-future of XHTML x.x [LONG]
• From: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>
• Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2002 09:53:18 -0500
• In-reply-to: <15838.15107.328035.479801@m...>

david@m... (David Megginson) writes:
>While the term "Open Source" is recent, the community around it has
>been in existence for a long time -- it spun off when AT&T closed off
>the Unix sources.  If hatred and fear were a driving force, then it
>was hatred and fear of AT&T, IBM, and Sun that drove most
>free-software projects.

The practices surrounding open source date back even further, pretty
much to the early days of computing.  Steven Levy's _Hackers_ is pretty
instructive in this regard.  Software wasn't always a commodity, even in
strictly commercial computing.

-- 
Simon St.Laurent
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