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by melissalobos 1411 days ago
My comment as may be noted was more a commentary on the historical licensing of MINIX which lead to Linux, see the original post.

https://fossbytes.com/linus-torvaldss-famous-email-first-lin...
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yjftsjthsd-h 1411 days ago
It's reasonable to say it wasn't free, but MINIX 3 is FOSS now.
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chungy 1411 days ago
The same argument could be made to claim "Linux isn't free" given its very first license.
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