# Did somebody unload a time machine from 1998 into this comment thread?

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Did somebody unload a time machine from 1998 into this comment thread? All
serious development is done in open source, while proprietary code is at best
a toy — and this has been the case for decades.

By [John Ohno](https://medium.com/@enkiv2) on [February 23,
2017](https://medium.com/p/29a45befd91a).

[Canonical link](https://medium.com/@enkiv2/did-somebody-unload-a-time-
machine-from-1998-into-this-comment-thread-29a45befd91a)

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