Open Source Computing is good for everyone! Open season: The rise of open-source computing https://www.economist.com/leaders/2019/10/03/the-rise-of-open-source-computing … via @TheEconomist @risc_v @CHIPSAlliance @linuxfoundation @openPOWERorg
I often point to SHARE (https://www.share.org/about ) as the the original open source software organization back in 1955
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Indeed. When I started in '74 We had a source code listing for the SHARE OS, it was over 400-pages and marked up in ballpoint via numerous people describing various routines etc. Used to later copy concepts into OS/VS1
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I learned pretty much everything I needed to know about mainframe programming by reading the then mods on the SHARE Mods tape.... there were no licenses, no copyright... just sharing.
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