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What type of software is developed by volunteers, contains code in the public domain, and helped to make Linux popular

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Perhaps I’m being 5tup1d but I think your describing open source soft in general. Linux and a lot of periphery that runs on Linux is open source so it did play a large role being that it’s not proprietary like Windows and windows adjacent soft.
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