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Taking over Open Source Software.
1 posted on 03/17/2020 11:36:06 AM PDT by Varmint Al
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To: Varmint Al

I thought that the Windows Registry was already the worlds largest.


2 posted on 03/17/2020 11:40:53 AM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Varmint Al

bfl


3 posted on 03/17/2020 11:41:48 AM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!)
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To: Varmint Al

Can’t escape them, can we? Anything good gets Borged.


4 posted on 03/17/2020 11:54:41 AM PDT by rightwingcrazy (;-,)
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To: dayglored

Ping.


5 posted on 03/17/2020 11:59:00 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: Varmint Al

GitHub CEO Nat Friedman assured that Microsoft intends to keep the npm registry available as open-source and free to developers.


6 posted on 03/17/2020 12:11:25 PM PDT by ConservativeInPA
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To: Varmint Al

Open source was never largely the product of individuals doing really hard unique work for free.

UNIX system and utilities code was widely available, though not free. Many people borrowed a lot of code.

Government and university money paid a whole lot of contributors.

Open source without any ownership interest is as stupid as communism.


8 posted on 03/17/2020 12:45:40 PM PDT by old-ager (anti-new-ager)
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To: Varmint Al

After XP and Win-7, everything MS has touched has turned to crap.


13 posted on 03/17/2020 4:32:44 PM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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