[geeks] [rescue] Ultra 5 OS

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On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 05:41:36PM -0400, Andrew Jones wrote:

>Don't forget that Red Hat bought out the very first open source software
>company: Cygnus.

IBM used to give away it's operating system software and basic applications
programs. In the early 1950's it started a library of free software
from contributors. So they were giving away open source software long before
Cygnus existed.

I have had programs which were given away on various mod tapes, the most
famous was a variant of Kermit/370. (it was only a minor mod, I was working
on a much better version when I left my job involuntarily and the project
died with it.)

Mendelson's law (number 1): Microcomputer people consider it their g-d given
right to make the same mistakes that mainframe people did 30 years earlier.

Geoff.

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