>I think this would've been unfathomable to the handful of people who knew what Free Software (in the rms sense) back in the 1980s and 1990s.
Err, back in the mid-to-end nineties far from being unfathomable, a widespread belief was that each year (or 'soon') would be the year of "Linux on the Desktop" and Linux overthrowing Windows.
Re:The JavaScript Trap
by aaronbrethorst on Sunday December 07, 2014 @11:36AM
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Natalie Portman, hot grits, Netcraft confirms. I read Slashdot, too, but that didn't make the predictions any more real-sounding.
I'm still trying to explain to him that Obamacare was originally proposed by the Heritage Foundation as an alternative to "Hillarycare." Sigh.
The software world has changed a lot in the last 30 years. There are almost as many users directly using a Linux kernel-based operating system every day (Android) as there are Windows users worldwide, and Android will almost certainly take the lead from Windows by the end of 2015. I think this would've been unfathomable to the handful of people who knew what Free Software (in the rms sense) back in the 1980s and 1990s.