lemmyreader@lemmy.ml to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish · 11 months agoLinus Torvalds interview Reader's Digest - 2001lemmy.mlimagemessage-square48fedilinkarrow-up1473arrow-down17file-text
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minus-squareQuazarOmega@lemy.lollinkfedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down1·11 months ago opting to not lock the source code of his work like another guy we know well… I’m out of the loop, who are you referring to?
minus-squareℕ𝕠𝕓𝕠𝕕𝕪 𝕆𝕗𝕗𝕚𝕔𝕚𝕒𝕝@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up10·11 months ago Your browser does not support playing HTML5 video. You can download a copy of the video file instead.
minus-squareQuazarOmega@lemy.lollinkfedilinkarrow-up3·11 months agoAhh, I thought it was somebody else you were talking about since DOS was never open source
minus-squareAnUnusualRelic@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·11 months agoIt was about ms basic at the time I believe.
minus-squareQuazarOmega@lemy.lollinkfedilinkarrow-up2·11 months agoInteresting, so they had an open source product back then?
minus-squareAnUnusualRelic@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up8·11 months agoNo, but they were very adamantly against the sharing of ms basic which was their big product (before dos), at a time when software sharing was fairly common.
minus-squareQuazarOmega@lemy.lollinkfedilinkarrow-up2·11 months agoOh ok, makes sense. Funnily enough, it seems they decided to make it open source about 40 years later
I’m out of the loop, who are you referring to?
Mr.Redmond
in flesh and bones
Ahh, I thought it was somebody else you were talking about since DOS was never open source
It was about ms basic at the time I believe.
Interesting, so they had an open source product back then?
No, but they were very adamantly against the sharing of ms basic which was their big product (before dos), at a time when software sharing was fairly common.
Oh ok, makes sense.
Funnily enough, it seems they decided to make it open source about 40 years later
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