*Nix's 40th: Cost-Free Licensing Overview
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1. Multics-UNICS-UNIX 1965-69-70-73 AT&T proprietary MIT UniCalifBerkeley 1975 CP/M computer hobbyists UserGroups 2. Commodity code vs Hacker Ethics Apple I-II System & VMS proprietary 1977 BSD1 public domain 3. AT&T-$ vs BSD 1978.. 4. MicroSoft EULA proprietary M$-DOS vs IBM PC-DOS 81 End User License Agreement "enduring legacy to the computing industry.. most significant contribution to the distribution of software around the world" (Tesla-PC NYC); AT&T Unix 82 / SunOS(BSD) 83 5. GNU Project GPL General Public License LGPL GFDL etc license end-user freedom CopyLeft 1984 MIT / low-$ Minix 85 Apple-A/UX 86 / NeXT Computer 88 + OSF/UI formed USL / LPF 89 |
6. CERN NeXT Web publishing 1990 + GNU/Linux GPL 1991 BSD/386 Berkeley Software Design 1992 + Sun Solaris(SysV) 7. M$ Windows 3.1 vs IBM OS/2 + Novell UnixWare 1993 proprietary competition vs Internet = M$ Internet Explorer SCO 1995 8. Mosaic/Netscape/Mozilla 1994-98 $0 made open "The Debian Free Software Guidelines" Bruce Perens 1997 / OSD 9. Open Source Initiative OSI 1998 "non-profit corporation dedicated to managing and promoting the Open Source Definition for the good of the community, specifically through the OSI Certified Open Source Software (OSS) certification mark and program" OS/X 99 10. Creative Commons "flexible copyright for creative work" Lawrence Lessig 2001 / SCO copyright claim to *nix fails / patents |