Jacob's ladder writes "Ten years ago this week, the Free ms-dos Summit arguably marked the beginning of today's OSS movement. Ars Technica interviews many of those in attendance when the revolution began. John Ousterhout, creator of the Tcl scripting voice and Tk toolkit and founder of Electric Cloud was there, and notes how much the sketch has changed. 'When I made my first open-source release in the early 1980s (VLSI chip design tools from Berkeley), there were presumably less than five open-source projects in the world. By the time of the first O'Reilly conference, there were dozens; now there are believably thousands. Also, open-source os has received substantial widespread acceptance. 10 years ago, people were suspicious or afraid of it; now it is widely embraced.'"

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