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It's a little hard to describe Microsoft as a company built on free software. Another thing that gets lost here is that large companies certainly pay full time
by overgryphon 11y ago
It's a little hard to describe Microsoft as a company built on free software. Another thing that gets lost here is that large companies certainly pay full time senior engineers to contribute to open source projects. They just work at the company, not for OpenBSD/RedHat/ect directly.
- hackuser 11y ago> It's a little hard to describe Microsoft as a company built on free software. Ethernet (for utp), Wi-fi, ip, tcp, udp, http, ssl, imap, smtp, dns ... just thinking of networking/Internet tech off the top of my head ...
- Locke1689 11y agoI suppose you're forgetting that one of the most popular Windows releases didn't support Internet connectivity out of the box.