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   It's FOSS (itsfoss@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Oct-2025 21:14:36 JST It's FOSS

   When Ken Thompson taught Unix at Berkeley, BSD was born. 🐧💻

   #unix #bsd

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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Oct-2025 21:14:35 JST 翠星石

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     @itsfoss He originally provided copies of the source code of Unix to universities marked "Love Ken", which was the base of BSDs - although soon most was rewritten and the OS's were not longer Unix.
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     Blender Dumbass ( J.Y.Amihud ) (blenderdumbass@mastodon.online)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Oct-2025 21:15:52 JST Blender Dumbass ( J.Y.Amihud )

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     • 翠星石

     @Suiseiseki @itsfoss I was trying to point at the cancel culture surrounding Stallman.

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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Oct-2025 21:15:52 JST 翠星石

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     • Blender Dumbass ( J.Y.Amihud )
     @blenderdumbass @itsfoss Great, but you shouldn't make the mistake of claiming that proprietary software is libre.
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Oct-2025 21:15:53 JST 翠星石

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     • Blender Dumbass ( J.Y.Amihud )
     @blenderdumbass @itsfoss No BSD is libre - all of them are proprietary software, containing many proprietary programs and unlicensed files.
     
     The BSD developers needed a lot of convincing by rms and others to not release it as 100% proprietary software.
     
     Ideally many files under a free license would allow files to be copied and used elsewhere, but too bad it's mostly bad code that isn't worth copying.
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     Blender Dumbass ( J.Y.Amihud ) (blenderdumbass@mastodon.online)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Oct-2025 21:15:54 JST Blender Dumbass ( J.Y.Amihud )

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     @itsfoss Conveniently forgetting that the fact BSD is libre has to do with another man. Richard Stallman.