Imagine a world without opensource, and the only operating system that exists is Windows.

I seriously wonder: would I still be as excited about computers & tech? Would I have moved on and found another profession in life?

Thanks to everyone involved in opensource. I can't repeat this often enough ❤️

@fribbledom

there would still be alternatives, although commercial ;)
remember OS/2 or all those POSIX OSes?
and Apple emerged from the homebrew scene

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@pmj @fribbledom OS/2 is still around as ArcaOS. Microsoft is the reason IBM can't open source the code.

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