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Open Source
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. -
Software de suscripcion
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. -
CopytLeft
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. -
Shareware
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. -
Private Software
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.
