DConf 2013 Closing Keynote: Quo Vadis by Andrei Alexandrescu
Joseph Rushton Wakeling
joseph.wakeling at webdrake.net
Sat Jun 29 05:08:45 PDT 2013
On Saturday, 29 June 2013 at 08:37:48 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> The bottom line was the open source movement was not a very
> significant force in the 1980's when C++ gained traction. Open
> source really exploded around 2000, along with the internet. I
> wonder if open source perhaps needed the internet in order to
> be viable.
That's a very good point. It's before my time really, but if I
understand the history right, the main way to get hold of copies
of stuff like GCC in the early days was to pay for a set of disks
with it on -- and there was no infrastructure for easily sharing
changes. So neither the free-as-in-beer or free-as-in-freedom
advantages were as readily apparent or effective as they are
today.
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