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ARPAnet, mother of all free software?

Posted Nov 1, 2002 2:13 UTC (Fri) by liamh (subscriber, #4872)
Parent article: Linux and the desktop

Does anyone else besides me find it more than a little ironic that the defense department, which developed the internet, would have to endorse free and open source software? In large measure, the success of the ARPAnet was because a non-proprietary environment and sharing of code was officially encouraged, even mandated.

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