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Why It Was Almost Impossible to Make the Blue LED

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Why It Was Almost Impossible to Make the Blue LED

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Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago

The blue LED was supposed to be impossible—until a young engineer proposed a moonshot idea.

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Exactly why I left that company.

Specifically free (libre) licences, as permissive licences allow corporations to improve/adapt the software without contributing back to the community.

I only work on software with GPL compatible licences now.

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