[H-GEN] Who are we? What are we doing? How did it come to this?

[Paul Gearon]

On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 6:38 AM, Robert Brockway
<robert at timetraveller.org> wrote:

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> Hi all.  I was surprised that no one has referenced "the source" in this thread.

I thought about it, but decided it would be more appropriate coming
from someone who was present at the draughting, and has... you
know.... read it.  :-)

> Section 1c of the HUMBUG constitution states:
>
> "The aim of HUMBUG is to help people with unix like operating systems, to advance the cause of free software and open systems, and provide a social environment for people who enjoy using unix like operating systems to meet."
>
> I believe that the wording has remained unchanged since the original constitution in 1995.  Notice how it doesn't mention 'open source' - the term as we normally use it wouldn't exist[1] until 1998.
>
> So I agree with those who said that non-FOSS Unix was used/explored/etc at HUMBUG too but there was a definite pro-FOSS bias from the early days.  I seem to recall a young Jason Parker being particularly keen to include certain pro-free software statements :)

Funny you should mention him, as I was just emailing him the other
day. Jason, are you still here? Maybe you have some history to
contribute?  :-)

Paul