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Re:Android AOSP maintainer quits by fhd2 on Wednesday August 07, 2013 @04:35PM (#6175434)
Frankly, if the internet had been driven by the desire to make profit in the early days, we wouldn't have TCP/IP, the web, email or any other open protocol for that matter.
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Re:Android AOSP maintainer quits by wmf on Wednesday August 07, 2013 @04:50PM (#6175523)
I don't know why fhd2 was downvoted. Hippies created BSD and TCP/IP; suits created Compuserve and X.whatever.
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Re:Android AOSP maintainer quits by minor_nitwit on Wednesday August 07, 2013 @07:12PM (#6176290)
Yes, but it wasn't until the internet was opened up for commerce that it became widely adopted.
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Re:Android AOSP maintainer quits by vacri on Wednesday August 07, 2013 @07:40PM (#6176410)
Yes, but without the open nature of network protocols, it would not have been able to have become widely adopted.
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