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  • 995a3c3c3c3c2424@feddit.nl
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    1 year ago

    Yeah, OpenBSD predates “open source” by a few years and some people actually found the name weird at the time because there was such a strong association with “Open” being used to mean things like “controlled by an industry consortium rather than a single company”.

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      1 year ago

      There was a joke in one of the BOFH episodes (Bastard Operator from Hell for those unfamiliar, look it up if you don’t know it, it’s worth it) that went like this:

      “So I tell him, ‘you can’t port Debian to a car computer, it’s not an open system’ ha ha ha ha”

      That joke was not about the car computer.