Ten things you didn't know about open source
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| The common view is that open source is some sort of radical new idea,
| but in fact, although not expressly called open source, early computer
| software's source code was open to viewing and changes. In the early
| days of computing, when mainframes would be delivered in trucks,
| companies were supplied software and were actually expected to modify
| it. This model was the norm and it was only around 1976 when Bill
| Gates posted a famous letter on the Homebrew Computing Club demanding
| that people stop sharing his Altair BASIC that the idea of proprietary
| software began to emerge. The Free Software Foundation was started in
| 1985 in response to what was seen as the new idea of keeping software
| code secret.
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http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?src=rss&id=1465
Open source company gets another major contract:
Alfresco and WoodWing Announce Open Source ECM/Workflow Partnership
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| The solution gives newspapers, magazines, book publishers, corporate
| and agency clients a scalable publishing system that is easy to
| implement, maintain and integrate with front and back-end systems.
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http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/070420/clf053.html?.v=62
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