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On Wed, 4 Sep 2013, bad apple wrote:
On 04/09/13 16:04, Philip Hudson wrote:On 4 Sep, 2013, at 3:08 pm, Matt Lee wrote:it would be nice to know that we'd have something like 95% worldwide free software adoption.Do we not already? Proprietary is just a thin layer over FLOSS these days.That will be unexpected news to the engineers working on AIX, MVS, z/OS/zVM, iOS (Cisco, not Apple), JuniperOS, OpenVMS... even the windows guys will be surprised! We've come a long way since the windows TCP/IP stack was lifted wholesale from BSD you know... Open source is indeed everywhere these days but I think your argument kind of understates the millions (billions? trillions?) lines of code born in entirely proprietary shops all over the world.
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