Of course, Silicon Valley added to that by sharing ways to show the commercial side of software development and how it bridges into this community side of free software movement. I would say, by the time the open-source movement happened – that was ‘97, ‘98 – there’s a clear role for Silicon Valley to play, namely the large software companies, like Netscape at the time, were very seriously considering, and eventually did, open all its code.

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