14 Jul
2021
14 Jul
'21
4:09 p.m.
On Wed, Jul 14, 2021 at 09:07:19AM +0000, Lars Brinkhoff wrote:
Michael Kj??rling wrote:
X10 and X11 predate all of this and at least X11 is open source.
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Larry McVoy lm at mcvoy.com http://www.mcvoy.com/lm
And all this, of course, ignoring the other issue
of what might be
considered a "start to the open source operating system movement",
given that even development of GNU was well underway by the time the
Linux kernel got started (having been worked on since early 1984)
GNU planned to adopt TRIX which was developed at MIT in the mid 1980s.
I don't know its exact distribution terms, but Wipikedia says "open
source" so it was possibly in that general vicinity.
Arguably ancient PDP-10 operating systems like ITS, WAITS, TENEX were
somewhat "open" and "free", but it's not a clear cut case.