ACP, One of the Oldest Open Source Applications

posted by Thom Holwerda on Fri 21st Aug 2009 15:02 UTC, submitted by estherschindler

The Airline Control Program, introduced by IBM around 1967, predated the term 'open source' by decades. But you may be surprised by how much of its development reflects the FOSS movement today.

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