Re:ISTR a lot of 'open source' software in the 80s
I'll bet you didn't know that Sperry/Unisys were open source (not so much since the "new brooms" post '86).
You paid for the O/S, but Sperry would let you have full access to the source so you could f*ck about with it.
They just said that if you did mess with the code, you did so via a provided mechanism. You could bodge the code directly, but you were on your own if you did and it went TITSUP.
Quite a shock for me to move over to an IBM technology that was black-boxed to Hellenbach.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
