On Thu, 05 Mar 2009 14:24:18 -0500, Warp wrote:

> Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote:
>> Simply not true.  Even in college back in the early 90's, most of the
>> software that was installed on our Sun systems was precompiled
>> binaries, not built from source.
> 
>   Especially true since Unix and Unix software started as proprietary,
> closed-source commercial systems. The open source mentality didn't
> prevail until well into the 90's.

Yes, generally right after the BSD court cases completed IIRC.

Jim

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