Free Software History
The following is from a summary by Florian Cramer.
The full text is available as “Free Software as Collaborative Text” (at userpage.fu-berlin.de/~cantsin/homepage/writings/copyleft/free_software/free_software_as_text/en/free_software_as_text.html). The passage illuminates the Internet history section of Chapter 1 from a slightly different perspective.
It is not accidental that history of Free Software runs parallel to the history of the Internet. The Internet is built on Unix networking technology to a large extent. Academic institutions could get Unix for a “nominal fee” including its source code in the early 1970s, and it remains to be the historical base or model of the common Free Software operating systems BSD and ...
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