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Why MAME's 2016 relicensing mattered for reuse, preservation tooling, and the distinction between emulator source and copyrighted game data.
Microsoft's August 2016 announcement put PowerShell on GitHub and introduced it on Linux and macOS, changing its scope well beyond Windows administration.
How GNU's freedom-centered movement and the 1998 open-source campaign came to share much software while making different arguments.
How a strategy meeting, Netscape's source release, and the Debian Free Software Guidelines produced a new advocacy label.
Where to legally read the code behind computing history: Netscape 1998, early Unix via TUHS, museum releases like MacPaint, and id's GPL drops.
Netscape's January 1998 pledge led to Mozilla's first source release in March, but converting old browser code into Firefox took years.
Announced at Build 2019 and pushed to GitHub May 3, 2019, Windows Terminal brought tabs and modern rendering to the command line, fully open source.
On September 28, 2018, Microsoft placed MS-DOS 1.25 and 2.0 source and binaries on GitHub under MIT; MS-DOS 4.00 followed separately in April 2024.