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by pjmlp 308 days ago
Most programming languages have a commercial history related to them, either developed by corporations, or authors have been employed by major universities or corporations.

Linux was largely irrelevant until 1998, what happened then specifically?

> Many major companies such as IBM, Compaq and Oracle announce their support for Linux. The Cathedral and the Bazaar is first published as an essay (later as a book), resulting in Netscape publicly releasing the source code to its Netscape

-- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Linux

Rails happened because Basecamp made it possible.

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All those examples prove my point.