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minus-square/home/pineapplelovercakelinkfedilink6•13 days agoFor profit companies can take it, close source it, and make it paid software. Which is why GPL is superior.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink4•13 days agoBut people can keep developing an open-source version, right?
minus-square/home/pineapplelovercakelinkfedilink5•13 days agoYeah but people can be stupid bastards. For some reason some people would rather get it from TurboTax than they would a github repo
For profit companies can take it, close source it, and make it paid software. Which is why GPL is superior.
But people can keep developing an open-source version, right?
Yeah but people can be stupid bastards. For some reason some people would rather get it from TurboTax than they would a github repo
Yeah. I see. Thanks for the replies.