One such opinion appears in the following CACM article from the late 1960s:
Bernard Galler, Tad Pinkerton, and Bruce Arden, "Proprietary Packages: a Point of View," Communications of the ACM 11, 12 (1968)
The authors suggest that "We consider it unwise for organizations to withhold from open exchange and publication, programs which are not produced as part of a software business or which are not proprietary applications...We believe it is imperative to retain the tremendous advantages the computing world has achieved with the free exchange of programs and ideas..."
The current version of the journal Technology & Culture includes an article by the historian Atsushi Akera about SHARE, an early IBM user group.
http://shot.press.jhu.edu/tc.html
The call to keep software open source is not new, nor did it emerge apart from the context of corporate software development. This history is just starting to be written by scholars such as Atsushi Akera, Nathan Ensmenger, and others.
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One such opinion appears in the following CACM article from the late 1960s:
Bernard Galler, Tad Pinkerton, and Bruce Arden, "Proprietary Packages: a Point of View," Communications of the ACM 11, 12 (1968)
The authors suggest that "We consider it unwise for organizations to withhold from open exchange and publication, programs which are not produced as part of a software business or which are not proprietary applications...We believe it is imperative to retain the tremendous advantages the computing world has achieved with the free exchange of programs and ideas..."
The current version of the journal Technology & Culture includes an article by the historian Atsushi Akera about SHARE, an early IBM user group.
http://shot.press.jhu.edu/tc.html
The call to keep software open source is not new, nor did it emerge apart from the context of corporate software development. This history is just starting to be written by scholars such as Atsushi Akera, Nathan Ensmenger, and others.