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Re:He Created the Oregon Trail by beowulfey on Sunday November 21, 2021 @08:44AM (#29296180)
This article set me up to tell me how the Oregon Trail went from being the brainchild of three educators not interested in money to the hugely explosive software it became… but left me unfulfilled. What happened after he published the source code? Who decided to sell it for money??
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Re:He Created the Oregon Trail by simonh on Sunday November 21, 2021 @11:48AM (#29297654)
Don Rawitsch was hired by a state funded educational software group to develop a version of it for them. That, and it’s descendants, are the ones that became commercial.
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Re:He Created the Oregon Trail by whoopdedo on Sunday November 21, 2021 @04:03PM (#29299695)
The answer to that is in this article[1]. I remember it from a HN thread[2] earlier this year.

[1] https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/how-you-wound-play...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27871196

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