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Re:GitHub and Open-Source Is a Boon for the Underprivileged by mverwijs on Sunday June 10, 2018 @05:08AM (#17277269)
It is the open Internet that levelled the playing field.

Of which Github and Open Source are but subsets.

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Re:GitHub and Open-Source Is a Boon for the Underprivileged by amasad on Sunday June 10, 2018 @05:10AM (#17277280)
Agreed. However, it was GitHub and not, for example, sourceforge that lowered the barrier to entry for open-source.

The open internet is the substrate on which innovation runs.

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Re:GitHub and Open-Source Is a Boon for the Underprivileged by BTeam on Sunday June 10, 2018 @05:36AM (#17277344)
Libre software and the open source spirit existed long before Internet. Sure, It was really hard to find projects and contribute to them, but we can do it since the dawn of computer science.
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Re:GitHub and Open-Source Is a Boon for the Underprivileged by wool_gather on Sunday June 10, 2018 @09:02AM (#17277911)
> Sure, It was really hard to find projects and contribute to them

They also weren't as visible and easily browsable.

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