In this regard, I happen to be writing a paper on computer user groups in France (of which one of the most active was... SHARE). From the first interviews I conducted and from the few meeting reports I have from the early 1960s, it appears that software sharing was short- lived. It rather took this form : A good program written by a user was adopted by the manufacturer, and became part of its commercial catalogue. At the meetings, users mostly presented programming methods, sometimes numerical analysis solutions, rarely software stricto sensu. A major topic emerged : suggesting improvements to the manufacturer's products. Best, Pierre Mounier-Kuhn Le 27 août 10 à 15:59, Joel West a écrit :
My understanding is that Evan is most interested in the historical antecedents to the well-known aspects of free software and open source software movements -- thinks like SHARE, DECUS and other software sharing in the 50s, 60s and 70s.
-- Joel West, Ph.D. http://www.JoelWest.org/Research Professor, Innovation & Entrepreneurship College of Business, San Jose State University BT 555, One Washington Square, San Jose, CA 95192-0070 _______________________________________________ This email is relayed from members@sigcis.org, the email discussion list of SHOT SIGCIS. The list archives are at http://sigcis.org/pipermail/members/ and you can change your subscription options at http://sigcis.org/mailman/listinfo/members