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Re:The JavaScript Trap by coldtea on Saturday December 06, 2014 @09:10PM (#8710985)
>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.

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Re:The JavaScript Trap by aaronbrethorst on Sunday December 07, 2014 @11:36AM (#8712650)
Natalie Portman, hot grits, Netcraft confirms. I read Slashdot, too, but that didn't make the predictions any more real-sounding.
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Re:The JavaScript Trap by Havvy on Saturday December 06, 2014 @09:54PM (#8711080)
The unfathomable part is that Android would not be free software.
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