I really wish that I was born early so I’ve could witness the early years of Linux. What was it like being there when a kernel was released that would power multiple OSes and, best of all, for free?
I want know about everything: software, hardware, games, early community, etc.
That doesn’t make the source code proprietary or non-open, it just means it isn’t a community driven project.
That’s just the way things were done back then. Slack has been around long enough that that’s just the way it is.
Looks pretty open source to me https://mirrors.slackware.com/slackware/slackware-current/source/