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Offline OrangeCrate

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A Day Without Open Source
« on: May 11, 2007, 09:42:52 PM »
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Say at the stroke of midnight, all open source software magically vanished. What would still work tomorrow? For starters, the Internet would “disappear” for the average user...

http://talk.bmc.com/blogs/blog-whurley/whurley/a-day-without-open-source

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Re: A Day Without Open Source
« Reply #1 on: May 13, 2007, 02:35:52 PM »
That sound's like a very spooky situation :o, and I hope that this won't  happen ever, cause it 'll be worst disaster in IT world to me. ::)

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Re: A Day Without Open Source
« Reply #2 on: May 16, 2007, 05:02:18 AM »
Not to mention Mac OS X would not exist since Apple uses UNIX for the core
"People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware." - Alan Kay