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Re:GitHub Sponsors by stephenr on Thursday May 23, 2019 @11:23AM (#19992583)
> doing your own service but building it open source and as a open platform

Why would they ever do this? Practically nothing they do is Open Source.

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Re:GitHub Sponsors by diggan on Thursday May 23, 2019 @12:01PM (#19992923)
Well, they trying to put themselves in the middle of open source. Why wouldn't they, if they really care about their users, not just getting profits?
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Re:GitHub Sponsors by stephenr on Thursday May 23, 2019 @02:35PM (#19994542)
> if they really care about their users, not just getting profits?

[citation needed]

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Re:GitHub Sponsors by diggan on Thursday May 23, 2019 @04:59PM (#19995878)
It's a for-profit company who "loves" open source and hosts a lot of it's projects. But the platform is still not open source. Go figure
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