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ACP, One of the Oldest Open Source Applications

  Submitted by estherschindler 2009-08-21 Open Source No Comments

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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