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    strypey strypey

    @pettter fact: HURD does and not and has never had corporate backing

    Monday, 27-Mar-17 09:06:05 UTC from quitter.se
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      strypey strypey

      @pettter fact: Linux kernel has had significant corporate backing, including fulltime developers paid for by corporations using it

      Monday, 27-Mar-17 09:14:21 UTC from quitter.se
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        strypey strypey

        @pettter presumption: this started around the same time the term "open source" was coined by Christine Peterson and the # was formed

        Monday, 27-Mar-17 09:15:44 UTC from quitter.se
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          strypey strypey

          @pettter fact: # was founded in 1998, 5 years after the # project

          Monday, 27-Mar-17 09:16:37 UTC from quitter.se
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            strypey strypey

            @pettter correction: HURD has had students paid a stipend to work on it over their summer break through the GoogleBeast Summer of Code

            Monday, 27-Mar-17 09:21:05 UTC from quitter.se
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              strypey strypey

              @pettter The Summer of Code is technically corporate backing, but on a totally different scale to the investment in the Linux kernel

              Monday, 27-Mar-17 09:21:47 UTC from quitter.se
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                strypey strypey

                @pettter proposition: major NSA then corporate use of GNU/Linux and support for Linux kernel dev, demoralized and disincentivized HURD work

                Monday, 27-Mar-17 09:24:05 UTC from quitter.se
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                  strypey strypey

                  @pettter proposition: the Linux supremacy argument, like the white supremacy argument, is a post-fact rationalization of historical accident

                  Monday, 27-Mar-17 09:25:18 UTC from quitter.se