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I'll avoid dating myself by keeping it sufficiently vague, but Open Source Software. Going from the world of closed source, for-profit software to that of FOSS is like night and day. It's more like a 100x improvement. Today's open-source world is quite different, but I'll still take it hands-down.

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I find it interesting how big companies have adapted to use OSS to their advantage, leading to the popularity of JS libraries like React and complicated infrastructure systems like kubernetes.

They've managed to completely move the goalposts for what the baseline needs of a computer program are.

Initially everything was OSS. Then Gates and Jobs came along and started doing closed source software. But in 50's and a good chunk of 60's people programming those frameworks would freely exchange software.

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