[Info-vax] Vax Station 4000 VLC

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 12/27/2018 10:04 PM, Dave Froble wrote:
> On 12/27/2018 8:12 PM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>> On 12/27/18 11:14 AM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>>> On 12/27/2018 7:16 AM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>>>> On 12/26/18 9:42 PM, Dave Froble wrote:
>>>>> POSIX ended up being "everybody look and act like Unix".
>>>>
>>>> A standard was needed.  The majority of available Open Source
>>>> Software was written for Unix/POSIX.  What would you have them
>>>> do use the totally obscure and unknown VMS API as the basis
>>>> for POSIX?
>>>
>>> I believe the "vendor neutral" aspect was more important
>>> for POSIX than open source.
>>>
>>> POSIX is from 1988 and at the time open source as such
>>> was not as dominant as now.
>>>
>>> It is actually 10 years before the term "open source" was defined.
>>
>> While the term open source may  not have been as common as it is
>> now some of us have been working on open source projects since
>> at least 1980.  comp.sources.unix comp.sources.misc comp.sources.sun
>> And lets not forget vmsnet.sources
> 
> One might suggest the DECUS library ...

The concept is old. Probably way older than 1980.

But the term showed up in 1998 at the initiative of
Eric Raymond and some other people.

Before that it was just "free software".

Arne