1. In the early day of computing, programmers and developers shared software in order to learn from each other
2. Eventually, it moved to the way side of commercialization of software in 1970-1980
3. The Netscape communication corporation released their popular Netscape Communicator Internet Suite as free software. This made others to look into how to bring the free software ideas.
4. The Open Source Initiative was founded in Feb 1998 to encourage use of the new term opensource.
