Comment on What happened to techbros from the 90s to now?
CosmoNova@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Tech bros like Bill Gates used open source communities like an all-you-can-monetize buffet to build a closed operating system. The rest is history.
Comment on What happened to techbros from the 90s to now?
CosmoNova@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Tech bros like Bill Gates used open source communities like an all-you-can-monetize buffet to build a closed operating system. The rest is history.
False@lemmy.world 3 months ago
What open source was in Windows?
motor_spirit@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I don’t have time to verify if the answer is in this link but it seems to be relevant
en.m.wikipedia.org/…/Microsoft_and_open_source
Agrivar@lemmy.world 3 months ago
“Microsoft, a tech company historically known for its opposition to the open source software paradigm, turned to embrace the approach in the 2010s. From the 1970s through 2000s under CEOs Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer, Microsoft viewed the community creation and sharing of communal code, later to be known as free and open source software, as a threat to its business, and both executives spoke negatively against it.”
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homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Bill Gates’ primary quest was to destroy open source right from day 1. See “Hackers” by Steven Levy for more.
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 months ago
Just an example, in 2020, Microsoft bought npm, the Node Package Manager.
False@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Definitely not relevant to the late 80s
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 months ago
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I’m not seeing you specify the late 80’s as your reference timeframe anywhere here.
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 3 months ago
You’ll never know, if they get their way.