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Re:Why We Must Fight for the Right to Repair Our Electronics by zAy0LfpBZLC8mAC on Wednesday October 25, 2017 @10:39AM (#15550474)
> Some of the banks profits now went into paying developers for the changes in the fork. Do you think the bank's executives will just want the money they put into the fork to potentially benefit all of their competitors by having them make a pull request to the original software?

Given that that is how they can avoid having to maintain a fork indefinitely, and that that is the fair thing to do after you profited from the gift of others who did the same: Erm, yes, they absolutely should want that, and most likely it is in their own best interest.

Re:Why We Must Fight for the Right to Repair Our Electronics by iamatworknow on Friday October 27, 2017 @10:05AM (#15568349)
I agree with you from a programmer's perspective, but a banker who has limited knowledge of how open source works may not.