Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

ACP, One of the Oldest Open Source Apps

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the before-there-was-github dept.

Esther Schindler writes "The Airline Control Program (ACP), introduced by IBM around 1967, predated the term 'open source' by decades. But you may be surprised by how much of its development resembles the FOSS movement today. The ITWorld.com article An Abbreviated History of ACP, One of the Oldest Open Source Applications describes what made it special."

3 of 102 comments (clear)

  1. 5K bag by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    "the ACP programmers I knew spent entirely too much time trying to shove 5K of functionality into a 5K bag. "

    I can do that in my sleep!

  2. Re:It's not open source. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Has slashdot really got to the point where falsehoods like "Open source means the code is available. Nothing else." are modded insightful?

    We fought wars over nonsense like that, kid.

    CAPTCHA: jackpot. As in, what Microsoft's "Shared Source" provocateurs have hit with people like you.

  3. Re:It's not open source. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    What are you talking about? We've always been at war with Oceania.