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Re:The Commons Clause is an existential threat to open source by sipos on Wednesday August 22, 2018 @12:58PM (#17820097)
> Some are seeing that corporations are the ones making all the money on the back of open source software.

This is true of everything. This isn't a problem with open source, it is a problem with society generally.

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Re:The Commons Clause is an existential threat to open source by ehnto on Thursday August 23, 2018 @02:29PM (#17829560)
The rest of society doesn't give their "business cogs" away for free though. It just strikes me as odd that in a business context, there's the expectation that lots of the software will be free.
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