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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."

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  1. CP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Did somebody say CP?!

  2. Lawyers outed CIA agents to Gitmo detainees by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Detainees Shown CIA Officers' Photos

    The Justice Department recently questioned military defense attorneys at Guantanamo Bay about whether photographs of CIA personnel, including covert officers, were unlawfully provided to detainees charged with organizing the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, according to sources familiar with the investigation.

    Treason, no?

    1. Re:Lawyers outed CIA agents to Gitmo detainees by ClosedSource · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Perhaps they were following the precedent set by the Valerie Plame case and assumed that it was OK to out covert CIA officers.