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Are you seriously trying to suggest that source code being publicly accessible is worse than nobody being able to access it? What a ridiculous statement.
by JSavageOne 3y ago
Are you seriously trying to suggest that source code being publicly accessible is worse than nobody being able to access it? What a ridiculous statement.
- TAForObvReasons 3y agoYou are intentionally misrepresenting OP. > When will VC companies stop *conflating source available with open source*? *Misrepresenting* "open source" is the problem. "source available" is the correct phrase
- JanisErdmanis 3y agoIt was worse in the case of early BIOS, which IBM made public in an instruction manual while keeping all relevant rights on distribution. I wonder why they did not publish it with a GPL or AGPL license, where they would keep commercial use to themselves.
- yencabulator 3y agoIBM PC was released in 1981, GPL 2.0 (which was the first version in wide use) in 1991.