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DeepSeek Proves It: Open Source is the Secret to Dominating Tech Markets (and Wall Street has it wrong). (www.linuxfoundation.org)
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[–] [email protected] 85 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Time to dust off this old chestnut

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I remember this being some sort of Apple meme at some point. Hence the gum drop iMac.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I think the inspiration is from Modern Humorist (note: there's no HTTPS)

Edit: here's the image in question:

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

You’re right. That’s it!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This was likely at the time of switching to OS X, which is based on FreeBSD

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

This guy found the original.

https://lemmy.world/comment/15023547

It was originally about Napster / Gnutella.