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-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
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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