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The article says the story was from 2005. Open source was very much widely known at that time. Linux was 13 years old by then, and Sun themselves open sourced b
by peterkelly 5y ago
The article says the story was from 2005. Open source was very much widely known at that time. Linux was 13 years old by then, and Sun themselves open sourced both DTrace and Solaris that same year.
- mpermar 5y agoWidely known... by a few techies. Well, certainly many more than in 1995, right? But can't compare those times to these days.
- BlueTemplar 5y agoMore than a few "techies", around here at that point software licenses were already part of the mandatory undergraduate "computer literacy" course...
- anthk 5y agoYou must be young. Everyone on IT/CS related knew about Linux/BSD and the GPL2/BSD licenses.