toddinpal
join:2002-09-18
Palatine, IL
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Re: And how is this different than using the Internet?
said by Trakker  :
Hey people wake up the Internet was founded on the concept of "open source"
Sorry, but that's not really accurate. The Internet was founded on the idea that disparate computer systems and networks could be linked together for mutual benefit. Although Stallman probably forged the concept of open source with the Free Software Foundation, that occurred after the Internet and more than a decade past the founding of the Arpanet which preceded the Internet. Also the concept of open source has certainly made the Internet more prevalent than it might have been (thank you Apache!), yet it wasn't a founding concept of the Internet. |
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Urzumph
join:2002-11-06
Australia | Re: And how is this different than using the Inter
Open Source != Free software.
Open source came first, yes, the internet was open source (the first browser, the first webserver (IIRC) and all the standards were open), but not Copyleft. |
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toddinpal
join:2002-09-18
Palatine, IL
| Sorry, but the first browser came long after the Internet. The first web browser marked the begining of the World Wide Web, but the Internet itself existed for nearly a decade before that using protocols such as FTP, SMTP, etc. As for Open Source != Free software, it's more like they overlap in more ways than they don't. I can't say which came first as there has been free software for as long as I've been a developer, which makes free software at least 25 years old and that software included source. Open Source now seems to mean software source that is covered by one of several specific set of terms and conditions. |
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