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Oracle Completes Its Acquisition of Sun Microsystems
The January 2010 transaction that put Java, Solaris, MySQL, and major server assets under Oracle—and reshaped their communities.
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CERN Releases World Wide Web Software into the Public Domain
The April 30, 1993 statement signed by CERN's directors that put the core Web software in the public domain — and what it changed at a decisive moment.
#cern#web#public-domain
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The Term 'Open Source' Is Proposed and the OSI Forms in 1998
How a strategy meeting, Netscape's source release, and the Debian Free Software Guidelines produced a new advocacy label.
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The Pentium FDIV Bug: A Tiny Lookup-Table Error and a Massive Recall
How five missing table entries produced rare Pentium division errors, a $475 million charge, and a lasting lesson in technical trust.
#pentium#fdiv#hardware-bug
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SCO v. IBM: The Lawsuit That Claimed Linux Contained Stolen Unix Code
How SCO's Unix contract suit became a threat to Linux, fractured over evidence and copyright ownership, and ended in a 2021 settlement.
#sco#ibm#linux
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The Unix Wars: AT&T, BSD, Sun, OSF, and the Standards That Outlived Them
How commercial Unix fractured across codebases and alliances while POSIX and the Single UNIX Specification preserved portable interfaces.
#unix#posix#standards
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USB 1.0 Tries to Replace a Desktop Full of Incompatible Ports
How USB combined one host-controlled bus, device discovery, shared connectors, power, and classes—and why adoption still took years.
#usb#peripherals#standards
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Usenet Before the Web: Distributed Discussions Over UUCP and NNTP
How Usenet propagated discussions without one owner or database—and created enduring norms for threads, moderation, spam, and archives.
#usenet#uucp#nntp
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From IEEE 802.11 to Wi-Fi: How Wireless LAN Became Interoperable
How IEEE radio standards, Wi-Fi Alliance certification, unlicensed spectrum, security repairs, and product naming built a mass market.
#wifi#802.11#wireless
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Xerox PARC and the GUI: Alto, Smalltalk, Ethernet, and the Myth of One Stolen Demo
What PARC actually built, what preceded it, what Apple saw in 1979, and how research ideas became distinct Lisa and Macintosh products.
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