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Re:Where Vim Came From by Syssiphus on Tuesday August 07, 2018 @06:43AM (#17705296)
> Fred Fish was an American programmer that mailed out a floppy disk every month with a curated selection of the best open-source software available for the Amiga platform.

Fish disks contained mostly freeware/public domain as far as I remember. Not open-source software.

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Re:Where Vim Came From by JdeBP on Tuesday August 07, 2018 @08:55AM (#17706064)
The name "open source" had not even been coined at the time. "PD" was a popular contemporary prefix for things, although their actual public domain status was legally questionable, irrespective of the FSF's objections to the idea.
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