Richard Ibbotson wrote:
What's the earliest reference to open source anyone knows? I found this in a 1965 paper:
The Michigan Terminal System (MTS) emerged in the early 70s, with the source code shared and maintained by a number of unis. <http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1404097&lastnode_id=0> "The Michigan Terminal System (MTS) was an IBM mainframe compatible operating system which came out of the University of Michigan in the early 1970s. MTS was developed and maintained by a consortium of universities around the world including ..." <http://www.clock.org/~jss/work/mts/timeline.html> "May 1967 MTS released to campus as operating system for IBM 360/67." "November 1968 University of British Columbia runs MTS" And elsewhere <http://www.clock.org/~jss/work/mts/overview.html>: "Whereas other systems made users feel like it was just them one-on-one with a computer, MTS was designed with many features that enabled sharing and collaboration. Users were able to collaborate with MTS developers, and vice versa. According to Bob Parnes, architect of the Confer system, 'MTS was our system; it belonged to the University, not to a corporation.'" Other refs: <http://www.cis.udel.edu/~mills/gallery/gallery8.html> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michigan_Terminal_System> cheers rickw -- _________________________________ Rick Welykochy || Praxis Services No position is so absurd that a philosopher cannot be found to argue for it. -- Michael Lockwood -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
