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		phkahler on April 25, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Jeff Geerling: Corporate Open Source Is Dead >> Source available from the beginning is ethical. It's also mostly pointless. If someone wants to develop features for software they pay for I guess that's their choice. >> I'm not sure what people want these companies to do. Not rug-pull.

johnmaguire on April 25, 2024 [–]

There are many reasons people prefer open source software other than wanting to do their own development: Security auditing, the ability to reverse engineer protocols / serialization formats, or simply to better understand a product's features.

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