On Monday 15 February 2010 09:00:05 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote: > What's the earliest reference to open source anyone knows? I found > this in a 1965 paper: > > The Multics system will be published when it is operating > substantially, and will therefore be available for implementation > on any equipment with suitable characteristics. Such publication > is desirable for two reasons: First, the system should withstand > public scrutiny and criticism volunteered by interested readers; > second, in an age of increasing complexity, it is an obligation to > present and future system designers to make the inner operating > system as lucid as possible so as to reveal the basic system > issues. > > > (From: Corbato and Vyssotsky, `Introduction and Overview of the > MULTICS system' proc. fall joint computer conference, > 1965. http://www.multicians.org/fjcc1.html ) > > (Oh, and the Mulicts system is published: see > http://web.mit.edu/multics-history/ > > Mind you, even though the intention was for the source to be > open-source, the development process was closed-source, and ran very > very late... so th source wasn;t released until 1999, 15 years after > development stopped...)
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