[LUAU] the term "open source" is dead, says Eben Moglen

[Jim Roby]

Jim Thompson wrote:
> On Nov 24, 2006, at 11:40 PM, Jimen Ching wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 24 Nov 2006, Jim Thompson wrote:
The idea of charging for software came way after there was an 
established community of free software developers.  Why do you think RMS 
believes that sharing software was natural?  People at MIT has always 
shared software.  The idea of proprietary software was the radical idea. 
At least back then.

My two cents: In the world of the PC, this was a very strong tone.The 
original IBM machines
all came with a Rom chip that would boot you into GW Basic if nothing 
else was found,so you could start writing your own software.Most 
executable programs were Com files that could be
disassembled with Debug.It was M$ that forced the switch to Exe files so 
the code would be more protected. The world of mainframes was business 
dominated and very different.

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