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Re:The Cathedral, the Megachurch, and the Bazaar by j16sdiz on Monday January 19, 2026 @12:00AM (#46675218)
> wasn't always taken seriously.

Does Perl and Apache (as in httpd, not the foundation) counts?

They are shipped in many enterprisy software at those time.

., and BIND. NTP, Sendmail. They are all opensource and predates that.

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Re:The Cathedral, the Megachurch, and the Bazaar by pjmlp on Monday January 19, 2026 @04:51AM (#46676962)
Yeah, but the whole point was about GNU, and not so much UNIX culture, which was been free since the early days, given that AT&T could only charge a symbolic price for the tapes.
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