« Open Source » is a confusing notion because it's loaded with multiple sense. A word that crystallizes an entire history, marked by every period in the history of computing.
An idea which may seems simply about source code sharing that contain in reality more than 70 years of exploration into the collaborative capabilities of digital technologies.
An overview of the history is key to try to understand what is « open source » and to embrace digital collaboration potential, an important component to demystify the notion for the knowledge base « Open Source Undefined: Overview of the Digital Bazaar ».
There is a draft plan with some key dates and elements, while thinking of aspects to transmit to try to consider the pedagogical dimension of the knowledge base:
Image: Grace Hopper, creator of one of the first programming languages.
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