From: Strata Rose Chalup (strata@virtual.net)
Date: Wed Aug 23 2000 - 17:32:53 PDT
Qu'est-ce "Minux"? Could this be Minix, running cheerfully on a
T1000-LE laptop in 1988, booting a happy blue & white screen? :-)
Overly picky,
_SRC
Gregory Alan Bolcer wrote:
>
> comp.sources.game listed Xconq in the summer of 1986 and
> I never did one bit of work the whole Summer. [1] Later
> in July 1987, they came out with an X10 version that allowed
> more people than two to play over the Internet. I was one
> of those tiny number of people who used X.
>
> A quick GoogleVista search shows a history as follows
> from George Tyler, Motorola Computer Group:[2]
> 1968 - ARPANET to share software [I thought it was to share BAAs]
> 1969 - Unix source to Universities
> 1971 - MIT group for Free Software
> 1979 - Sendmail developed
> 1983 - General Public License (GPL) [I thought this was a recursive def]
> 1987 - Minux released with source
> 1991 - Linux Torvalds' Linux version .02
> 1993 - Free BSD 1.0
> 1994 - Red Hat & Caldera founded
> 1995 - Apache Server
> 1998 - Netscape releases source code
>
> The History of Open Source Project is a little more
> daring. They claim that the "open source" label itself wasn't
> really "agreed" upon until Feb 3rd, 1998. The exact quote:[3]
>
> > The `open source' label itself came out of a strategy session held on
> > February 3rd 1998 in Palo Alto, California. The people present
> > included Todd Anderson, Chris Peterson (of the Foresight
> > Institute), John `maddog' Hall and Larry Augustin (both of Linux
> > International), Sam Ockman (of the Silicon Valley Linux User's
> > Group), and Eric Raymond.
>
> [1] http://sources.redhat.com/xconq/manual/xconq_5.html
> [2] http://www.tmcnet.com/ctiexpo/f99/ppp/dev4/sld002.htm
> [3] http://www.opensource.org/history.html
>
> Dave Winer wrote:
> >
> > Interesting. I've been getting so much email on this.
> >
> > I want to ask you a question.
> >
> > Did open source software exist before the term was coined?
> >
> > Dave
>
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