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Re:The Cathedral and the Bizarre by m463 on Saturday December 14, 2019 @08:19PM (#21793733)
I'm not a researcher, I'm a programmer.

The same abandonment happens within healthy corporations with proprietary source code.

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Re:The Cathedral and the Bizarre by bboreham on Sunday December 15, 2019 @11:45AM (#21797098)
There are even times when the source code is abandoned but the object code is in active use :-)
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Re:The Cathedral and the Bizarre by m463 on Monday December 16, 2019 @09:59PM (#21810108)
emulators make the object code portable :)
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