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========================================================================= Date: Wed, 2 Dec 1998 09:29:15 -0500
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Subject: Re: CYHIST Digest - 25 Nov 1998 to 1 Dec 1998 (#1998-82)
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"Eric S. Raymond" <esr@THYRSUS.COM> writes,
>I am trying to date and locate the roots of the Internet "free software" culture. Specifically, I'm trying to pin down when sharing of software over the Internet or UUCP between people with no face-to-face contact first became a routine and marked feature of hacker behavior.
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>I know those roots go back before the Free Software Foundation in 1982.
The notion that "software should be free," was a given among the first, self-named "hackers" at MIT in the late 1950s. Thereafter I would expect that these, and all later generations of, hackers would share software via any-and-all means at their disposal, "face-to-face contact" NOT being necessary. Ergo, whenever it was that it became POSSIBLE to share software "over the Internet or UUCP," the hackers would undoubtedly have been there and made use of the ability.
Chris Chiesa
cfchiesa@servtech.com
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Subject: Re: CYHIST Digest - 25 Nov 1998 to 1 Dec 1998 (#1998-82)
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Community Memory: Discussion List on the History of Cyberspace ______________________________________________________________________
"Eric S. Raymond" <esr@THYRSUS.COM> writes,
>I am trying to date and locate the roots of the Internet "free software" culture. Specifically, I'm trying to pin down when sharing of software over the Internet or UUCP between people with no face-to-face contact first became a routine and marked feature of hacker behavior.
>
>I know those roots go back before the Free Software Foundation in 1982.
The notion that "software should be free," was a given among the first, self-named "hackers" at MIT in the late 1950s. Thereafter I would expect that these, and all later generations of, hackers would share software via any-and-all means at their disposal, "face-to-face contact" NOT being necessary. Ergo, whenever it was that it became POSSIBLE to share software "over the Internet or UUCP," the hackers would undoubtedly have been there and made use of the ability.
Chris Chiesa
cfchiesa@servtech.com
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