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		sulandor on Aug 28, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The slow evaporation of the free/open source surpl... you mean like curl, samba or sqlite?

layer8 on Aug 28, 2024 [–]

I mean like Linux, and Unix tools like vi. “College students” is maybe too limiting, but a large number of early open-source projects came out of university environments.

sulandor on Aug 28, 2024 | [–]

yes, linux also is a good example of a student project that addressed a lot of enterprise-level use cases

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