Wasn't the CBT the original open source shareware? And does anyone remember IBM "Type 3's" and "Type 4's" -- "Field Developed Programs," the former written by SEs and the latter by customers? Free and open source.
Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Tom Marchant Sent: Friday, October 02, 2015 5:26 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Having the mainframe on YouTube On Thu, 1 Oct 2015 10:45:35 -0600, Jack J. Woehr wrote: >The original open source software guy was ... Chuck Moore (FORTH). > >He decided about 1969 that all software should be distributed in source. Wasn't SHARE doing that in 1955? And I'm sure that they weren't the first. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
