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NewsForge: Fifty Years of Sharing Open Source

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“Through its Academic Initiative, IBM is sharpening its focus on
providing learning tools for college students interested in open
standards and open source software on IBM products. But a
volunteer-led group called SHARE has been working to teach open
source methods to those already in the business world.

“SHARE has been around since 1955, shortly after IBM released
its first computer, the 701 EDPM. With a subsequent release, the
704, a group of interested IT professionals decided to band
together to ‘share’ ideas about how best to install and implement
this exciting new tool in what may have been the very first user
group…”

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