Twenty Years of RISC OS Open

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RISC OS Open Ltd was incorporated in 2006 with the goal of opening a proprietary OS to community contributions.
The first public sources were released in 2007, followed by nightly autobuilds and a bounty scheme to fund features.
RISC OS 5 expanded to new hardware including the BeagleBoard (2010), Raspberry Pi (2012), and later the Pi 4 (2020).
In 2018, RISC OS was re-licensed under Apache 2.0, making it free for commercial and non-commercial use.
Recent milestones include a native Git client, NVMe support, and the Moonshots initiative for 64-bit ARM migration.
After 20 years, RISC OS is healthier than ever, thanks to community code, bug reports, and donations.

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PuTTY began as a personal project (STel) in 1996 to address poor terminal emulation in Windows Telnet clients.
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First public release in 1999 with a single executable and no installer, manual, or zip file.

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