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Re:Microsoft Paint to be killed off after 32 years by krylon on Monday July 24, 2017 @12:19PM (#14839748)
Huh. I thought it was open source.

EDIT: Wikipedia says it used to be open source, but it went to closed source. Still free as in beer, though.

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Re:Microsoft Paint to be killed off after 32 years by rhencke on Monday July 24, 2017 @01:05PM (#14840301)
Anyone wondering as to why Paint.NET transitioned to closed source may find this insightful:

https://blog.getpaint.net/2007/12/04/freeware-authors-beware...

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Re:Microsoft Paint to be killed off after 32 years by ue_ on Monday July 24, 2017 @01:23PM (#14840536)
Despite what happened to his software, which is clearly unfortunate, it's a shame to see it turn closed source. I would have thought that projects would be hopefully moving toward more free licenses.
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Re:Microsoft Paint to be killed off after 32 years by flukus on Monday July 24, 2017 @08:15PM (#14843959)
What license was it under? If it was something like BSD than it sounds like what people were doing with the program was legal.
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Re:Microsoft Paint to be killed off after 32 years by gpvos on Tuesday July 25, 2017 @02:51AM (#14845675)
MIT, and no. Even the BSD and MIT licenses don't allow you to remove the copyright notice.
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