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I’m guessing, although I don’t know, that they probably had an academic license laying around for another product that they cleaned up for this. A “it’s our sou
by easton 4y ago
I’m guessing, although I don’t know, that they probably had an academic license laying around for another product that they cleaned up for this. A “it’s our source, you can use it for fun but not for money” license. Microsoft has shared source licenses for academics/bigcos that need to see the source for Windows or whatever.
- cmrdporcupine 4y agoIt took them 4 or 5 years just to do this release, since it was first announced. I feel like "they just dusted off an old license" is not a likely explanation. Probably took 5 years just to get through all the lawyers at Apple, and this is what we ended up with. Remember, the default answer to almost any question poised to a lawyer is "No." :-(
- astrange 4y agoThat's because you're not supposed to ask the lawyer if you should do something. You ask their boss if you can do it and ask them them how to do it.
- fexecve 4y agoI'm not sure why it took so long, but I think that lawyers dragging their feet probably wasn't it. I'm guessing that they would have never announced the release, unless the lawyers had already signed off on it. I think instead, it took them 5 years to make the landing page (something like this would normally take two years, but the pandemic wasted three years of that time.)
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- asveikau 4y agoIt's a fairly safe bet that the benchmarking clause was not inserted with knowledge of the Lisa and its relevance today as a historical artifact.