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It is still true that people freely shared and copied sources for useful software in those days. It wasn't even called "open source" or any other kind of fancy
by int_19h 2y ago
It is still true that people freely shared and copied sources for useful software in those days. It wasn't even called "open source" or any other kind of fancy term because it was the norm.
- pjmlp 2y agoIt was called Demos, Public Domain, Shareware, Beerware, Postalware,.... And the open core licenses of nowadays are nothing more than a rebranding of those kind of license models.
- int_19h 2y agoI'm talking about the early UNIX time period, when it wasn't really called anything. Shareware etc is the minicomputer era.