How Open Formats Encouraged Open Source
August 18, 2007
Back in the early 1970s, the hardware engineers at Digital Equipment Corporation made a decision about how their new computer, the PDP-11, would address memory. I believe their decision had the unintended, butterfly-effect consequence of helping to bring the open source software movement into existence.
Source: Digg.com – Posted by: bonlebon
Link to Story: http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2007/02/22/open-formats-open-source.html
