Before the mid-1970s, IT professionals generally considered computer code to be an implicit part of hardware operation rather than unique intellectual property subject to copyright protection, and code sharing was a common practice.

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  What Is Open Source Software? - IBM

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• intellectual property concept
• hardware concept
• software code concept