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		woodruffw on March 4, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Show HN: Berkeley Mono Typeface One of the strongest indicators that FOSS has eaten the world is that we've all forgotten that UNIX licenses used to be thousands of dollars. And that's before you even bought the compiler license!

mananaysiempre on March 7, 2022 [–]

I wasn’t there, but I’ve heard that the AT&T-initiated compiler “debundling” was the thing that kick-started the popularity of the GNU userland, with GCC acting as the gateway drug. So not only are these facts related, they are apparently even causally so.

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