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The Beginnings of Free and Open Source Software

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Origin stories are often messy. What you are about to read is no exception.

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Haff, G. (2021). The Beginnings of Free and Open Source Software. In: How Open Source Ate Software. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6800-1_1

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