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JanisErdmanis on July 20, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Anytype – local-first, P2P Notion alternative

It was worse in the case of early BIOS, which IBM made public in an instruction manual while keeping all relevant rights on distribution. I wonder why they did not publish it with a GPL or AGPL license, where they would keep commercial use to themselves.

yencabulator on July 21, 2023 [–]

IBM PC was released in 1981, GPL 2.0 (which was the first version in wide use) in 1991.

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