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Re:We Need to Save What Made Linux and FOSS Possible by jakelazaroff on Thursday May 09, 2019 @09:33AM (#19868103)
What if you're using a product and its community abandons it? This isn't a unique issue to products with commercial backers.
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Re:We Need to Save What Made Linux and FOSS Possible by kazinator on Friday May 10, 2019 @02:34PM (#19880813)
Free software without a community is a thing; it's perfectly fine, and in fact better off without all the flies buzzing around it.

Proprietary software that is years past its support date, from a company that has not existed in years, yet still in use, is also a thing.

The one kind of entity that dies instantly when its backing goes away is a proprietary website.

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