On 6/4/26 02:45, Akira Urushibata via libreplanet-discuss wrote:
I decided to make a list of notable events in that period to help put
things into perspective.
Hi, Akira,
One thing which stands out was that in the 1990s, at least in academia,
FOSS was the norm in ICT. Better yet, it was growing by leaps and
bounds outside of academia as well as the 2000s approached. There were
several good reasons for that, all centered around the flexibility one
keeps by staying with FOSS tools, including programming languages and
their supporting modules.
What has changed is the corporate capture of most (that I know of)
universities. Much of the public has been trained now to see
universities not as centers for advancement, research, and learning but
instead as captive markets for failed or otherwise dodgy business models.
Dr Andy Farnell has written a lot about that capture, among other
things. See the following URL for one such article:
https://news.tuxmachines.org/node/158485
Or rummage around on his main site, which is unfortunately in the middle
of a reorganization:
https://cybershow.uk/content/pages/article.html
Anyway, about notable events, for a few decades, Perl was the ubiquitous
glue with which the Internet and, especially, the WWW was held
together. It was notable for Artistic License which was later adjusted
to become GPL compatible. However, I cannot find the original release
date for the Artistic License 1.0. But for what it's worth, both
versions are here:
https://perlfoundation.org/artistic-license-10.html
https://perlfoundation.org/artistic-license-20.html
Even the first version of SSH by Tatu Ylönen in 1995 was FOSS, though
the signed tarballs seem lost to time (or maybe malevolent mopping up).
Also in 1995, the Apache web server was released as FOSS. Of the next
two years, most web masters retired their home made web servers and
moved to Apache. Within months it became the most deployed web server
on the net. It was derived from its FOSS ancestor, the NCSA http
daemon. As with the original SSH, the original tarball seems lost to
time (or maybe malevolent mopping up). The timeline seems to make a
point of omitting mention of the early license(s):
https://www.apache.org/history/timeline.html
/Lars
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