James,
You asked for some proof of open source from 20 years ago. Let's see, I seem to
recall a popular operating system back in the late 70's/early 80's called CP/M. And I
recall some guy named Ward Christensen who wrote some code for what he called RCP/M or
Remote CP/M (1978), and a file transfer protocol called XMODEM (1977).
Here are some url references:
http://www.freewarehof.org/ward.html
http://www.cnet.com/Resources/Info/Glossary/Terms/xmodem.html
Rick
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>>> "James S. Kaplan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 04/04/99 08:35PM >>>
EVERYONE needs to be educated. If you don't think so, then you really need
some help.
20 years ago there was no such thing as open source. Your instructors and their
employer (the university) no doubt had limited ability to "share" ideas,
I'll bet a month's salary that as a student you could not "own" any
intellectual property while "working" at the educators faclilties nor could
you take ideas, code, etc that was developed elsewhere, esle you would have
been booted for cheating.
Please submit to the group some proof of open source (in concept or working
contract) existing 20 years ago.
On Sun, 04 Apr 1999, Steve Dimse wrote:
>I really don't need to be educated. I've been involved in open source
>software projects off and on since I was an undergrad in CompSci 20 years
>ago.
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