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Perhaps I'm misunderstanding, but both of your links seem to disagree with you.
by mkl 5y ago
Perhaps I'm misunderstanding, but both of your links seem to disagree with you.
- belter 5y agoThe point is they re-implemented Posix, an open standard. Not copied a proprietary system.
- oblio 5y agoYeah, but POSIX was just codifying the proprietary UNIX standards. UNIX got bootlegged in a era where license enforcement wasn't strict because people didn't even know what licenses where. These days UNIX would have been a strictly proprietary AT&T product, from day 1. Heck, POSIX stands for Portable Operating System (POS) + IX because X is a cool letter and IX because POSIX is cooler than POSIX plus, you know, UNIX.
- belter 5y agoMQTT was created by IBM https://mqtt.org/ https://mqtt.org/ If I implement it in Rust now, dont think I will be accused of copying IBM?
- damagednoob 5y agoWould Ecmascript[1] be another example? [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECMAScript#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECMAScript#History