Essays: How Online Privacy Is Like Fishing - Schneier on Security
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    • ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      6·
      5 months ago

      open source wasn’t really a thing in the 90s and early 2000s

      Truly written as someone who wasn’t alive back then and just makes stuff up.

      Open-source - which was called free software back then - was very much alive and totally a thing since forever, and especially in the 70s, 80s and 90s. I learned all I know with free software in the 80s. Linux came out in 91 and was a pure product of open source: Minix - the forerunner of Linux - was a fully open-source OS created in 87, and GNU had been around since 83.

      Please read up on things you don’t know before posting nonsense.

      • slickgoat@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        5 months ago

        I’ve been an internet user since 1994, and I can tell you this. Unnecessary hostility like this has always a thing from the very beginning. Even if the OP made a mistake, not saying that he did, why be a dick about it? Just add to the information pile.

        That’s my PSA.

        • ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
          8·
          5 months ago

          And boomer is telling you it was mainstream. Very much so. The only reason it wasn’t as developed as it is today is because computing wasn’t as developed as it is today.

        • realbadat@programming.devEnglish
          3·
          5 months ago

          Canonical was the early 2000s. Redhat was the early 90s. Inspire was the early 2000s. Collabara was mid-2000s. Ximiam was late 90s.

          Not only was open source pretty popular, it had a not-insignificant group of companies working on it.

          He’s very much correct.

            • realbadat@programming.devEnglish
              3·
              5 months ago

              Wow, you are not only unable to accept that you’re wrong, you make references to exactly what others have talked about, and then you act like a dick about it.

              Your comments apparently add nothing of value, so… Goodbye.

              • slickgoat@lemmy.worldEnglish
                3·
                5 months ago

                Yet another example of unnecessary hostility? Just disagree, for God’s sake. I’m not really sure what the actual argument is about, just chill.

                • realbadat@programming.devEnglish
                  2·
                  5 months ago

                  Nah, try reading through his messages in order. He gets nasty right away, as he did to another who pointed out his mistake. I figured I’d provide some supporting context, he again behaved like a dick. So I blocked him.

                  Doesn’t seem problematic to me at all.