Posted on 07/06/2022 11:21:21 AM PDT by ShadowAce
Gitlab is kind of a user-interface on top of Github
I use GitHub because MBED uses it. You can designate a library to be private. Are they not really private?
You should be able to read without an account, same as Twitter.
Tech CEO Jeffrey Peterson, in the aftermath of the Nov 2020 election steal, put together a worldwide working group to pull the world away from Windows, iOS, Google, Android and other captured Big Tech agents to make computers and internet thrive on open source Linux.
The group is intensely active and charged with passion for freedom.
See if you can peek in. If not, LMK and I’ll send some links that will get you access in less than a minute.
FreeBSD
everything is a file
MS got a code contract with LOTUS 1-2-3 and promptly stole the source code.
MS also made an early version of Word that enabled legal secretaries to use their memorized WordPerfect hotkeys when using MS Word. Word emerged to bury WordPerfect.
MS got a contract with Steve Jobs of Apple to help develop their WYSIWYG Word processing and spreadsheet products. MS stole those also, then emerged “Windows.”
Thieves.
WA State is now a brood of thieves but Marxists are descending on them.
Serves them right.
Hope they eat each other.
Signs show their moment in the Sun is fading.
WA state was once conservative, Scoop Jackson conservative.
But vote fraud is entrenched since year 2000.
Seattle was once a Boeing town with a lot of very talented machinists and engineers. They are now setting up shop in South Carolina.
My guess is that Microsoft has been playing nice in order to infiltrate open source, and later control it. Everything gets infiltrated now by the darkness.
My guess is that Microsoft has been playing nice in order to infiltrate open source, and later STEAL it!............................
Good list. It brought back memories. Disk compression and optimization was another technology they crushed. I think it is safe to add their Media / Video player too.
> It is open-source code, meaning anyone can use it without need for attribution.
If it’s open-source, there must be a specific license describing it. Each of the open source licenses describe requirements and allowances for licensing, distribution, and attribution. Code with no license is not automatically open source, and open source doesn’t automatically imply “anyone can use it without need for attribution”.
Yup. That’s Gary Kildall’s fault too for being a sucker.
When Linux takes over there will be Free Fish for everyone
Same with the Bitcoin space by Central Bankmeisters and their lap poodle, the Federal Reserve.
Keep your enemies closer.
Be ready to devour them..
Can’t tell you how many times I’ve seen a smallco CEO get a tingle up their leg when sociopath Bill Gates has his executive goon call them for the purpose of discussing some interesting aspects of their “business”
They get all misty-eyed, heart afluttered; dreams revived of infinite riches flowing towards them.
They know mot how tasty and crunchy they will be.
Bait and Hook.
Thanks to ShadowAce for the ping!
The BSD licenses were completely open source/public domain, but allowed people to make money off of selling it or any changes made to it.
I strongly prefer BSD, and always have. The rest of this is Commie-inspires code.
MS took more than DOS. In the early 80s I had a source code license for the HDOS 2.0 OS used on Heathkit H8 computers. I wrote lots of specialized devices drivers for that OS. The concept of loadable device drivers was stolen directly from HDOS. Likewise, the concept of "mounting" and "unmounting" a disk was stolen. How do I know? The principal programmer for HDOS was JG Letwin. His initials are all over the HDOS source. MS hired JG Letwin to transform the sloppy purchase from People's Computer Company into MS DOS.
I was also a CP/M programmer in that time frame and wrote a few drivers for that OS too. MS did steal a few concepts from CP/M, but not nearly as many as from HDOS.
True, but then there’s Google’s Chrome which was taken from the open source Chromium, then compiled with spyware and marketed worldwide.
Brave is based on Chromium and enjoys eating Chrome’s lunch.
Early on Gates did indeed steal from others. He stole and rearranged the deck chairs, then marketed under a different name after compliling the source code so no on could track where it came from.
Open source is a buffet of free food. But MS will take and then hog the buffet table, cliosing the eating hall to outsiders, or set up a tent outside with minimal crumbs to feast on.
That’s how they roll.
So yeah, it’s not stealing, it’s bullying or maybe better, it’s morbid obesity eating all the hamburgers and leaving scraps for those that linger around for whatever reason.
“I was also a CP/M programmer...”
That’s pretty cool and a good history lesson for me. I think I read that MS copied CP/M API (look and feel) and that is why I thought they stole a lot of the internal code.
Never much of a programmer except for HTML / CSS / Java. More hardware and electronics. But I made some mean batch files in the day. I miss them.
In the interface everyday. I am the IT manager for a mid-size company (150 employees) and we use 365. The web interface isn’t too bad (both server and consumer side). But I don’t like MS because I think they crushed innovation on their way up.
Who knows what could have been if everything was open source.
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