21 Aug
2008
21 Aug
'08
11:16 a.m.
Andrew Back wrote:
Does anyone know if the history of closed/unavailable
vs. open/available
source is documented anywhere? Ideally in a book or journal that can be
properly referenced.
Paul Koning wrote:
Then there are of course the various user groups and
their software
libraries -- DECUS is a well known example. That's somewhat like open
Just to mention, IIRC, SHARE, the IBM user group, which I believe was intended
both for sharing software amongst members and presenting a coordinated front of
members to IBM, was started back in the late 50's, or very early 60's at the
latest. I suspect DECUS was modelled somewhat, or took it's cue, from SHARE.