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by pilchardbreath 2976 days ago
The other "innovations" that ACM lists alongside were real innovations " Unix, TeX, S (R’s predecessor), the Web, Mosaic, Java, INGRES " now they are handing out awards for "copy commercial software but make it free" projects. Its funny how copying is a bad thing in an essay but applauded in software (as long as it has the right license).