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Re:"Your criticisms are completely wrong": Stallman on softw... by geoka9 on Wednesday November 21, 2012 @06:46PM (#4816906)
> Would BSD and Apache have caught on if Stallman hadn't been there? I don't know, but BSD at least predates GNU.

Would _open source_ have caught on if Stallman (and GNU) hadn't been there? That's an interesting question.

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Re:"Your criticisms are completely wrong": Stallman on softw... by cwp on Wednesday November 21, 2012 @09:23PM (#4817256)
Of course it would have. It was pretty much inevitable once Internet access became wide-spread.
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Re:"Your criticisms are completely wrong": Stallman on softw... by SirDinosaur on Thursday November 22, 2012 @12:13AM (#4817575)
me thinks that is taking both the internet and open source for granted.
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