[Ads-l] "Open Source" Not in OED

[Bill Mullins]

1987 Dr. Dobb's Journal Sep. 140/3

It's time to get good, cheap, open-source numerical software into the C world, before the vendors of proprietary object-only libraries get too established, as was historically the case in the FORTRAN world (much to the grief of FORTRAN programmers).

https://archive.org/details/dr_dobbs_journal_vol_12/page/739/mode/1up?q=%22open+source%22+


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