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Re:MIT’s Senior House dormitory closes, and a crisis blooms ... by AlphaSite on Monday September 11, 2017 @10:47AM (#15218898)
I’m fairly certain OSS predates him by a reasonable margin.
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Re:MIT’s Senior House dormitory closes, and a crisis blooms ... by dublinben on Monday September 11, 2017 @11:19AM (#15219136)
You'd be wrong. The Free Software movement predates the "Open Source" movement by 15 years or so.
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Re:MIT’s Senior House dormitory closes, and a crisis blooms ... by eropple on Monday September 11, 2017 @11:53AM (#15219439)
The BSD license predates the GPLv1.
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Re:MIT’s Senior House dormitory closes, and a crisis blooms ... by throwaway2048 on Monday September 11, 2017 @01:29PM (#15220313)
GNU as an organization pushing the idea of free software long predates the GPL. The people creating the BSD licensed BSD NET/2 explicitly aknowledged the GNU influence on their decision to release.
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Re:MIT’s Senior House dormitory closes, and a crisis blooms ... by wrs on Monday September 11, 2017 @03:30PM (#15221498)
He started the free software "movement" to _preserve_ the existing ethos of software sharing at MIT and elsewhere, which he saw as being destroyed by corporate influence.
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