Open Sourcing Usenet
from the it's-about-time dept
In response to the Google takeover of Deja, some folks are trying to open source usenet and have asked Google to donate the archives and old Deja code. It will be interesting to see how this works out.
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Knobs.
It is only the newbies who don't understand that.....in the time before browsers you:
1) Downloaded the code for the server and reader
2) compiled the server/reader
3) got a newsfeed.
it looks open to me.
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What's not open?
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