before Bill Gates stepped up his effort to close software licencing and end the trend of “copy the floppy”, it was common to have software code available to anyone who wanted it. Every tech magazine had pages of free code to do all sorts of things.
so apperantly: Oracle mostly inherited the open source from Sun Microsystems acquisition(but they stopped OpenSolaris and there was a lawsuit about Google using Java in Android), Microsoft starting somewhat kinda supportive of open source few years later (especially the Github acquisition ) and IBM only open sources a few things.
Yeah and even then, no one trusted Oracle with it. There’s a reason you don’t hear OpenOffice.org anymore, all the devs left to make LibreOffice once Oracle got their grubby hands on it.
Huh! Never knew that. Apache is definitely better than Oracle, but since it was originally held by Sun and then acquired by Oracle, I’m not surprised all the devs fled.
Wasn’t software originally opensource too? As in you would expect it possible to just email the company/person and ask for the commented code?
Not really? Oracle, IBM, Microsoft etc. were not the open source type.
before Bill Gates stepped up his effort to close software licencing and end the trend of “copy the floppy”, it was common to have software code available to anyone who wanted it. Every tech magazine had pages of free code to do all sorts of things.
so apperantly: Oracle mostly inherited the open source from Sun Microsystems acquisition(but they stopped OpenSolaris and there was a lawsuit about Google using Java in Android), Microsoft starting somewhat kinda supportive of open source few years later (especially the Github acquisition ) and IBM only open sources a few things.
Yeah and even then, no one trusted Oracle with it. There’s a reason you don’t hear OpenOffice.org anymore, all the devs left to make LibreOffice once Oracle got their grubby hands on it.
well ig Oracle gave OpenOffice to Apache
Huh! Never knew that. Apache is definitely better than Oracle, but since it was originally held by Sun and then acquired by Oracle, I’m not surprised all the devs fled.
true
No idea, if companies would hand out the code, but lots of code was written by academics back then, who would generally freely share their code.
Apparently, there was also lots of what we’d call “piracy” today, at least if a certain Mr. Bill Gates is to be believed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Open_Letter_to_Hobbyists