History of free and open-source software | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 02/01/2019

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00:01:04 1 Sharing techniques before software
00:02:34 2 Free software before the 1980s
00:05:10 2.1 Initial decline of free software
00:10:10 3 1980s and 1990s
00:10:21 3.1 Informal software sharing continues
00:11:26 3.1.1 SHARE program library
00:12:02 3.1.2 DECUS tapes
00:13:34 3.1.3 Online software sharing communities in the 1980s
00:15:14 3.2 Launch of the free software movement
00:17:08 3.3 Linux (1991–)
00:20:01 3.4 The free BSDs (1993–)
00:20:41 3.5 The dot-com years (late 1990s)
00:21:48 3.6 The launch of Open Source
00:26:40 4 Desktop (1984–)
00:32:30 5 Microsoft, SCO and other attacks (1998–)
00:33:33 5.1 Microsoft's contributions to open source
00:35:21 5.2 SCO v. IBM and related bad publicity (2003–)
00:39:09 5.3 European Commission v. Microsoft (2004–2007)
00:40:39 5.4 ISO OOXML controversy (2008–)
00:42:08 6 Open source and programming languages
00:43:12 6.1 Java
00:46:14 7 Distributed version control (2001–)
00:46:57 7.1 Git (2005–)
00:50:08 8 Recent developments
00:52:45 8.1 Android (2008–)
00:53:50 8.1.1 Oracle vs Google
00:55:06 8.2 Chromium OS (2009–)
00:55:53 9 See also



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In the 1950s and 1960s, computer operating software and compilers were delivered as a part of hardware purchases without separate fees. At the time, source code, the human-readable form of software, was generally distributed with the software providing the ability to fix bugs or add new functions. Universities were early adopters of computing technology. Many of the modifications developed by universities were openly shared, in keeping with the academic principles of sharing knowledge, and organizations sprung up to facilitate sharing. As large-scale operating systems matured, fewer organizations allowed modifications to the operating software, and eventually such operating systems were closed to modification. However, utilities and other added-function applications are still shared and new organizations have been formed to promote the sharing of software.