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		DarylZero on Dec 13, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: “Open source” is not broken All of the commercial Unix vendors had as their fundamental technical goal user lock-in, while Linus had technical goal of performance + stability and maybe popularity.

pjmlp on Dec 14, 2021 [–]

Had IBM and others not jumped in, it wouldn't have mattered.

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