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pjmlp
on Oct 27, 2024
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Open Source on its own is no alternative to Big Te...
It would exist as I knew it until 2000's, and hence why I see a parallel where current non-copyleft adoption has taken us back to.
whoitwas
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That's the point. It wouldn't exist. It's not possible without research and OSS. You can't write off the entire foundation of CS before a date. Well you can, but it's ignoring history.
pjmlp
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There was plenty of research at my university without OSS.
ekianjo
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The whole internet is running mostly on OSS so not really
pjmlp
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The Internet used plenty of closed source UNIX back then, and did just fine.
anthk
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Even Microsoft used PDP10's back in the day.
pjmlp
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And, since when was Xenix open source?
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