I found this ad from Personal Computer World (UK) in 1985. I think we all like their moto! Has anyone heard of this company? They don't seem to be still around from an internet search I did. But people who worked there may have had an interesting career (hopefully!)
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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).
Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.
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Applications without source code don't exist.
Oh, they meant, "you should have the source code to the applications you use." Well in that case, good call on them.
Yes unfortunately they do.
In the 90's I wrote some Visual Basic applications, the only source code they had was isolated snippets to describe the buttons actions.
But most of the app was not based in source code but directly on a binary formal that VB could understand.