posted by Thom Holwerda on Tue 8th Aug 2006 18:49 UTC, submitted by Moulinneuf
Icon"There are a lot of reasons why people make their code open source. I believe that one of the strongest original motivations has often been overlooked. Our hagiography tells the tale of how it all started with the quest for software freedom. But contemporaneous with Richard Stallman's story, other people were taking the same path (releasing source code) for a very different reason: the architecture of Unix."
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