MOSE Shorts - 4: How Open Source Accelerates Technology Evolution and Increases Longevity

29/06/2024 9 min
MOSE Shorts - 4: How Open Source Accelerates Technology Evolution and Increases Longevity

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Knowing who, and more importantly how they are using the open source project that you're working on is not just interesting, but also very important. This helps the community to evolve and strengthen the project and keep the ecosystem growing along with making it long living. Also, in most cases, people will use your project in a way you would've never imagined!In this MOSE Short, Jim Hall talks about how the FreeDOS use cases evolved over the years, including academic usage, hobbyists, a railway communication system, and booting an IBM PC 5150 from a vinyl record! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.