 The Software Tools Users Group | |
| Formation | c 1976 |
|---|---|
| Headquarters | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, United States |
Membership | Over 2000 at its peak |
Coordinator | Deborah K. Scherrer |
Key people | Dennis E. Hall, Joseph S. Sventek |
The Software Tools Users Group (STUG) was a technical organization started in 1976, in parallel with Usenix. The STUG goal was to develop a powerful and portable Unix-like system that could be implemented on top of virtually any operating system, providing the capabilities and features of Unix in a non-proprietary system. With its focus on building clean, portable, reusable code shared amongst multiple applications and runnable on any operating system, the Software Tools movement reestablished the tradition of open source and the concepts of empowering users to define, develop, control, and freely distribute their computing environment.[1]
- ^ Peter H. Salus, A Quarter Century of UNIX, 1994