lemmyreader@lemmy.ml to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish · 10 months agoLinus Torvalds interview Reader's Digest - 2001lemmy.mlimagemessage-square48fedilinkarrow-up1478arrow-down17file-text
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minus-squareAnUnusualRelic@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·10 months agoIt was about ms basic at the time I believe.
minus-squareQuazarOmegaAlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·10 months agoInteresting, so they had an open source product back then?
minus-squareAnUnusualRelic@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up8·10 months agoNo, but they were very adamantly against the sharing of ms basic which was their big product (before dos), at a time when software sharing was fairly common.
minus-squareQuazarOmegaAlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·10 months agoOh ok, makes sense. Funnily enough, it seems they decided to make it open source about 40 years later
It was about ms basic at the time I believe.
Interesting, so they had an open source product back then?
No, but they were very adamantly against the sharing of ms basic which was their big product (before dos), at a time when software sharing was fairly common.
Oh ok, makes sense.
Funnily enough, it seems they decided to make it open source about 40 years later