History

• Initially software was tied to the hardware and free
• Organized collections: SHARE, ACM collected algorithms on tape
• 1970s Academic distribution of Unix in source code form
• 1983: Richard Stallman and the GNU Project
• Late 1980s: X Window System
• 1991: Linus Torvalds and the Linux kernel
• 1998: Netscape releases Mozilla; the Open-Source Movement

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