lemmyreader to [email protected]English • 10 months agoLinus Torvalds interview Reader's Digest - 2001lemmy.mlimagemessage-square40fedilinkarrow-up1465arrow-down16file-text
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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink3•10 months agoAhh, I thought it was somebody else you were talking about since DOS was never open source
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink2•10 months agoInteresting, so they had an open source product back then?
minus-square@AnUnusualReliclink8•10 months agoNo, but they were very adamantly against the sharing of ms basic which was their big product (before dos), at a time when software sharing was fairly common.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink2•10 months agoOh ok, makes sense. Funnily enough, it seems they decided to make it open source about 40 years later
Ahh, I thought it was somebody else you were talking about since DOS was never open source
It was about ms basic at the time I believe.
Interesting, so they had an open source product back then?
No, but they were very adamantly against the sharing of ms basic which was their big product (before dos), at a time when software sharing was fairly common.
Oh ok, makes sense.
Funnily enough, it seems they decided to make it open source about 40 years later