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In 1955, SHARE was founded as a way for IBM users to analyze the OS and discuss programming that mattered to them. Over the next couple of decades, sharing source became a much more common practice. Big tech universities like MIT, as well as major research labs, hoped that code sharing would create a unified learning environment for the growing field of software technology.
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Centralized hosting of business applications dates back to the 1960s. Starting in that decade, IBM and other mainframe providers conducted a service bureau business, often referred to as time-sharing or utility computing. Such services included offering computing power and database storage to banks and other large organizations from their worldwide data centers.
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Pese a que hoy en día el concepto se aplica a una amplia variedad de campos como la producción literaria o la cinematográfica, su origen se encuentra en la década de los años setenta en el incipiente desarrollo de software para la todavía embrionaria industria informática.
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El shareware, aunque muchos aficionados a la informática lo desconocen, nace en la década de 1980, prácticamente con la misma computación personal. Su concepto mismo y los cambios que proponía significaron una revolución en la informática doméstica, revolución que sólo una década después fuera apreciada en su justa dimensión.
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By 1983, the concept of software licensing came to be, and shortly thereafter came GNU software. The condition of use for GNU was that all source code must be open and shared.
