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Yet most of these run on open source code. That there are thousands of independent actors exploiting, and developing, these tools is one of the reasons open so
by edgyquant 5y ago
Yet most of these run on open source code. That there are thousands of independent actors exploiting, and developing, these tools is one of the reasons open source has been so successful.
- pjmlp 5y agoOpen source has existed since forever on tapes and cards exchanged between university students, programming listings on computer clubs magazines for home microcomputers, source code delivered on the professional version of development tools,... Nothing new really, unless you want to be pendantic on the real meaning of "open source" as defined by Open Source Initiative. At the end of the day it won't matter, because those developers have bills to pay so eventually idealism gets replaced with real life.