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0 pointspjmlp1y ago0 comments

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.

0 pointspjmlp1y ago0 comments

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.

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whoitwas1y ago· 1 in thread

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.

pjmlpOP1y ago

There was plenty of research at my university without OSS.

ekianjo1y ago· 1 in thread

The whole internet is running mostly on OSS so not really

pjmlpOP1y ago

The Internet used plenty of closed source UNIX back then, and did just fine.

anthk1y ago· 1 in thread

Even Microsoft used PDP10's back in the day.

pjmlpOP1y ago

And, since when was Xenix open source?

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6 comments · 3 top-level

whoitwas1y ago· 1 in thread

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.

pjmlpOP1y ago

There was plenty of research at my university without OSS.

ekianjo1y ago· 1 in thread

The whole internet is running mostly on OSS so not really

pjmlpOP1y ago

The Internet used plenty of closed source UNIX back then, and did just fine.

anthk1y ago· 1 in thread

Even Microsoft used PDP10's back in the day.

pjmlpOP1y ago

And, since when was Xenix open source?

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