lemmyreader@lemmy.ml to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish · 9 months agoLinus Torvalds interview Reader's Digest - 2001lemmy.mlimagemessage-square36fedilinkarrow-up119arrow-down10file-text
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minus-squareQuazarOmega@lemy.lollinkfedilinkarrow-up0·9 months agoAhh, I thought it was somebody else you were talking about since DOS was never open source
minus-squareAnUnusualRelic@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·9 months agoIt was about ms basic at the time I believe.
minus-squareQuazarOmega@lemy.lollinkfedilinkarrow-up0·9 months agoInteresting, so they had an open source product back then?
minus-squareAnUnusualRelic@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·9 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.
Ahh, I thought it was somebody else you were talking about since DOS was never open source
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.