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Re:The Internet Relies on People Working for Free by TuringNYC on Tuesday September 17, 2019 @03:34PM (#20999189)
Do you remember being a developer in the 90s? It was horrible and you were stuck in the confines of truly for-profit companies and for-profit platforms and paradigms.

One benefit of OSS is to lead the world to a place where you want the world to go.

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Re:The Internet Relies on People Working for Free by pjmlp on Tuesday September 17, 2019 @04:37PM (#20999815)
Having started to code during the 80's, what was so horrible about the 90's?

I had access to Amiga and PC, bough my software tools that I actually cared about (with student discount), and did some programming gigs already before getting into university.

Back then, making a living from selling developer tools still looked like a possible way of life.

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