> outside of industry, people don't share ideas and software remains in corporate silos with no/low interoptability unless a business decides to form a strategic partnership.

Computer science and computing was taught and done at universities long before Stallman and GNU came along. I was using C++ Release E at college before GNU started, provided by Bell Labs at no cost.

That said the previous post.

>> remained in the domain of universities and industry

> I was using C++ Release E at college before GNU started, provided by Bell Labs at no cost.

Was the source available, and possible to modify it?