The rebellious nature of Unix sharing in the early days taught an important lesson for would-be sharers today: either take pains to make sure your software can be used by anyone who wants to, or risk being shackled by lawyers and corporations who don't want it to be used.
other than unix (clearly) being one of the most important technological leaps forward in computing, which is just a given at this point, well, that pic is just awesome!
> By the mid-1970s, the environment of sharing that had sprung up around Unix resembled the open-source movement so prevalent today.<p>Not sure what percentage of today's open-source movement has an environment of sharing. Much of it is cathedrals in bazaar's clothing.