Hacker News·4 min read·medium
Twenty Years of RISC OS Open
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RISC OS Open Ltd celebrates its 20th anniversary of transitioning a proprietary operating system into an open-source project. The article highlights key milestones, including community contributions and the porting of the OS to hardware like the Raspberry Pi.
On 20 June 2006 we incorporated RISC OS Open Ltd with one slightly mad ambition: to take a proprietary operating system and open it up to anyone who fancied helping. Twenty years on, that has largely happened, and the RISC OS of today is in far better health than the one we inherited.
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