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My observation is fundamentally that if open source can be cannibalized by profit-seeking entities, it will be so cannibalized.

It’s true that I haven’t comprehensively studied the GPL.

Mostly I’ve observed companies using hundreds, thousands, or millions of hours (depending) of the very hard work of many very smart open source devs in building their own proprietary systems on top and making fucktons of money, none of which is ever seen by the people who made 90 or 95% of their business possible.




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