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		pjmlp 6 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: OpenBSD Innovations It was called Demos, Public Domain, Shareware, Beerware, Postalware,.... And the open core licenses of nowadays are nothing more than a rebranding of those kind of license models.

int_19h 5 months ago [–]

I'm talking about the early UNIX time period, when it wasn't really called anything. Shareware etc is the minicomputer era.

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