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<P><B><FONT FACE="Courier New">Some time back [june 2005, from what I gather from my search] a magazine called "Software Development" included a fold-out poster with "A History of Free Software" on one side [and an ad for IBM's rational software development environment on the other]</FONT></B></P>
<P><B><FONT FACE="Courier New">The timeline starts a good ways back -- 835, in fact, with the note that "Emperor Wen-tsing prohibits private publication of almanacs" and runs through 2005's tiff between Linus and the BitKeeper crowd and posits that "Git" may become "the next great open source contribution"...</FONT></B></P>
<P><B><FONT FACE="Courier New">An online version has been sighted here:</FONT></B>
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<P><B></B><A HREF="http://jroller.com/cyblogue/page/weblog?entry=the_open_road_a_history"><B><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Courier New">http://jroller.com/cyblogue/page/weblog?entry=the_open_road_a_history</FONT></U></B></A><B></B>
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