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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.

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whoitwas1y ago

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

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

Even Microsoft used PDP10's back in the day.

pjmlpOP1y ago

And, since when was Xenix open source?

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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.

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whoitwas1y ago

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

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

Even Microsoft used PDP10's back in the day.

pjmlpOP1y ago

And, since when was Xenix open source?

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse