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Explain the History of open source software.
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Solution
- In the early day of computing, programmers and developers shared software in order to learn from each other
- Eventually, it moved to the way side of commercialization of software in 1970-1980
- The Netscape communication corporation released their popular Netscape Communicator Internet suite as free software. This made others to look into how to bring the free software ideas.
- The Open Source Initiative was founded in Feb 1998 to encourage use of the new term open-source.
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