OSNews > Thread > "RE: Open Source has been around for a long time" by Sphinx

Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 17th Oct 2005 20:26 UTC

The world's richest man talks about developing new drugs to combat AIDS, open-source software and why Microsoft's still cool after all these years. Gates: "We encourage everyone to develop in our environment. Free software's nothing new... There was an early browser, an early mail program. But as times moved on, it's been the commercial programs that get the support, get the richness."

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RE: Open Source has been around for a long time

by Sphinx on Mon 17th Oct 2005 23:40 UTC in reply to "Open Source has been around for a long time"

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2005-07-09

You are confusing shareware and open source, not the same at all.

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RE[2]: Open Source has been around for a long time

by raver31 on Tue 18th Oct 2005 09:23 in reply to "RE: Open Source has been around for a long time"

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2005-07-06

shareware was from the late eighties, however, in the fifties and sixties and most of the seventies, all software used to be open sourced.
Bill Gates used open sourced software at the start too, when he was taking and giving code in his computer club.

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