“The concept of open source and the free sharing of technological information existed long before computers.”

When you conduct a search on the phrase, ” open source software,” that is the opening line on Wikipedia’s entry for “open source” history. A great article, by the way. It discusses much of what I have come to know and love about the Internet. Open source has provided me with Open Office (a productivity suite similar to Microsoft Office,) Firefox (my browser of choice,) and WordPress (the engine and template I am currently using on this site.)