Linked by David Adams on Tue 28th Oct 2008 16:14 UTC, submitted by M-Saunders
GNU, GPL, Open Source Free Software/open source often gets a bad rap for innovating. It just rips-off the work of commercial developers, right? Not so, as this Linux Format piece argues. FLOSS has pioneered, or been a catalyst in, some notable changes in the computing world. Several of these innovations are OS-related.
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Perl, Python, Tcl
by JoeBuck on Tue 28th Oct 2008 17:54 UTC
JoeBuck
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2006-01-11

The scripting languages we all use are all open source, and all have novel features.