Converting private keys to PEM format is very easy with the command below, make sure you replace PRIVATE_KEY_FILE with the name of the key file you want to convert.

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In 1974, Dr. Gary A. Kildall, while working for Intel Corporation, created CP/M as the first operating system for the new microprocessor. By 1977, CP/M had become the most popular operating system (OS) in the fledgling microcomputer (PC) industry. The largest Digital Research licensee of CP/M was a small company which had started life as Traf-0-Data, and is now known as Microsoft. In 1981, Microsoft paid Seattle Software Works for an unauthorised clone of CP/M, and Microsoft licensed this clone to IBM which marketed it as PC-DOS on the first IBM PC in 1981, and Microsoft marketed it to all other PC OEMs as MS-DOS.

A friend of mine asked me today why I release my work as public domain, it seems lawyers (and not just them) especially dislike this way of waiving your rights on the code. While I acknowledge there might be problems in some jurisdictions, the main idea is this:

Releasing your work as public domain is not merely a practical way of giving the code to people, but also a political statement against the idea of software ownership. Not everything has to belong to someone.