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DATE | 2005-08-16 |
FROM | Contrarian
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SUBJECT | Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] Kept Alive by Open Source
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> Beloved old technologies don't die. They go open source. For some reason the > open source model has enabled dead and dying technologies to stay alive long > after commercial interests left them to rot.
Case in point: Wordstar. jstar is close enough for many users.
> "In the case of Stella, there wasn't a huge increase in features until it > was open-sourced," Stephen Anthony, one of the project administrators for > the Stella Project, told internetnews.com. "Progress has been slow due to > real-life commitments of all involved, but if the project hadn't been > GPL'ed, all development would probably have ceased."
Live free or die.
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