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No future in proprietary software (ZDNet)

No future in proprietary software (ZDNet)

Posted Dec 5, 2002 15:59 UTC (Thu) by kreutzm (subscriber, #4700)
In reply to: No future in proprietary software (ZDNet) by torsten
Parent article: No future in proprietary software (ZDNet)

Where did you get this information from ? AFAIK he never worked on proprietary software nor does he use it.


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No future in proprietary software (ZDNet)

Posted Dec 12, 2002 16:24 UTC (Thu) by dbreakey (guest, #1381) [Link]

Check here. While it doesn't actually say he worked on proprietary software, he did, as far as I know, work on closed-source, in-house software while at MIT. It was, reportedly, his experiences there and his observations on the lack of unencumbered software at the time that led him to start what is now, and may have always been, the GNU project.

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