Gutenberg 2.0: the birth of open content

Posted by glynmoody on Apr 6, 2006 5:00 AM
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The roots of the open content movement go back to 1971, before free software, before even the Internet existed, when Michael Hart was given an operator's account worth $100 million on a Xerox Sigma V mainframe at the University of Illinois.

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