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In the late sixties and early seventies most software was produced by academics and corporate researchers working in collaboration, in universities such as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and in the large user groups formed around hardware made by IBM and the Digital Equipment Corporation. Such software was not seen as a commodity. The source code of operating systems, such as early versions of UNIX, was widely distributed, allowing users to fix bugs or add new functionalities. (However, users who received for free early versions of UNIX could not redistribute or distribute modified versions, so this was not what is now called free software.) | In the late sixties and early seventies most software was produced by academics and corporate researchers working in collaboration, in universities such as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and in the large user groups formed around hardware made by IBM and the Digital Equipment Corporation. Such software was not seen as a commodity. The source code of operating systems, such as early versions of UNIX, was widely distributed, allowing users to fix bugs or add new functionalities. (However, users who received for free early versions of UNIX could not redistribute or distribute modified versions, so this was not what is now called free software.) | ||
