Open-Source
Some, including MIT scientist Richard Stallman, yearned for the
return of those happier times and the mutual cooperation of
programmers that existed when Unix was not commercial. So in 1983,
Stallman launched the GNU (GNU's not Unix) project, which aimed at
creating a free Unix-like operating system. Like early Unix, the GNU
operating was to be distributed in source form so that programmers
could read, modify, and redistribute it without
restriction. Stallman's work at MIT had taught him that by using the
Internet as a means of communication, programmers the world over
could improve and adapt software at incredible speed, far out pacing
the fastest rate possible using traditional software development
models, in which few programmers actually see one another source
code. [7, McCarty,1999]
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