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if you're a business with capital-M-Money, and you put "hello world" up on github, if someone wipes out their machine running it they're going to sue you. Doesn't matter what license you put on it, you're going to need the lawyers and they cost more money than you would have theoretically gained by putting your crappy "hello world" with the accidental "rm -fr" command in it up on github.



Has this ever happened? There are plenty of companies that are not software companies releasing open source software.




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