On Thu, 2022-01-06 at 09:17 +0000, Michael Kay wrote:
>
> >
> > A less obvious one is that XML forced a lot of organizations to
> > accept
> > open source code for the first time, and made it become "normal".
>
> They had been using the UNIX and TCP/IP infrastructure for a long
> time before, but I guess they didn't think of it as open source
> because it came bundled with the hardware.
In most cases it wasn't - Solaris, Ultrix, AIX, HP/UX, and more, all
were closed-source. They were open specs for APIs at various levels
(e.g. posix) which helped a lot.
TCP/IP was (is) a set of specifications, not an implementation.
Liam
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