Cory Doctorow on Nostr: Most of the internet was born proprietary and had freedom foisted upon it. Unix was ...
Most of the internet was born proprietary and had freedom foisted upon it. Unix was born within Bell Labs, property of the convicted monopolist AT&T. The GNU/Linux project set it free.
SMB was born proprietary within corporate walls of Microsoft, another corporate monopolist. SAMBA set it free.
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