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I was in the military and at university when this was published. In '86 I had been using computers for several years, since I had relatives (father and two uncles) that had jobs that exposed me to almost all the computing platforms of the day. The very small sub-set of geeks that I hung around with "knew" then that there was great opportunity for open source, even though there was no such term for it then. We shared all software, both the commercial and the public domain. We built computers from kits and home-etched circuit boards. Nobody cared what computer you had, having one and sharing it with like minds was the norm. When the internet and OSS came along, we were already there.