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Re:The Few, the Tired, the Open Source Coders by dvdkon on Friday November 20, 2020 @03:33AM (#25158457)
They perfectly demonstrate the disadvantages of private forks. They don't get security fixes, other bugfixes, or new features that userspace software will eventually use.
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Re:The Few, the Tired, the Open Source Coders by rozab on Friday November 20, 2020 @05:42AM (#25159169)
Right, they never would have seen the light of day were it not for GPL.
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