Berkeley Software Distribution | computer operating system (original) (raw)

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Joy

• In Bill Joy
  …responded in 1977 by creating Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD), which distributed Berkeley UNIX’s source code for free, allowing other programmers to learn and improve on the software. It was a pioneering moment in what is now called the open-source movement.
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open source

• In open source: Hacker culture
  …various licenses based on the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD), developed in the 1970s at the University of California at Berkeley.
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