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Re:The fundamentalist FOSS mentality by village-idiot on Tuesday November 20, 2018 @08:38AM (#18493674)
Don’t be silly, no.

But the chance that they would quit this job and go work on open source code for a living is about 0%. Would you rather they go make proprietary code for a megacorp instead? Nobody seems to single out Google engineers for abuse when it comes to FOSS vs proprietary, it’s always the little guys who get all the abuse.

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Re:The fundamentalist FOSS mentality by AsyncAwait on Tuesday November 20, 2018 @02:28PM (#18496866)
He did not get abuse. He got one or two responses two years ago that said that they'd prefer this to be FOSS, I'd prefer Google's tools to be FOSS too.
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Re:The fundamentalist FOSS mentality by village-idiot on Tuesday November 20, 2018 @04:30PM (#18497949)
Context. I’m talking about GP.
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