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Re:The Future of Libjpeg-Turbo by londons_explore on Sunday January 10, 2021 @06:10PM (#25721340)
> and the software is also available for free under the same or similar terms

This would be illegal in many countries. The business must behave in its best interests. If software is available for free, yet they choose to pay for it, they aren't acting in their own best interests in the eyes of the law....

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Re:The Future of Libjpeg-Turbo by Denvercoder9 on Sunday January 10, 2021 @06:57PM (#25721915)
Hence you pay for "support", not the software.
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Re:The Future of Libjpeg-Turbo by jart on Sunday January 10, 2021 @09:09PM (#25723404)
It sounds more like kelnos is paying for influence. Sort of like inviting your congressman to dinner and drinks rather than writing an email for free.
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Re:The Future of Libjpeg-Turbo by simongr3dal on Monday January 11, 2021 @09:34AM (#25729268)
It would be in the interest of the software company that a open source dependency stays around and continues to get updates etc.
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