This is written as if the DECUS tape sharing didn't happen. As if source code was not routinely free with the hardware and as of the tertiary education norm of

This is written as if the DECUS tape sharing didn't happen. As if source code was not routinely free with the hardware and as of the tertiary education norm of writing your own OS in your own idiom or language didn't happen. I feel like I must have lived in an alternate universe, another timeline. My entire online life from 1974 has been on free software, from the EMAS/IMP system and Fortran/Algol onward.