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Re:Nano98: Windows 98 that boots and runs under 5MB (2003) by npteljes on Tuesday September 21, 2021 @12:00PM (#28606435)
I don't think this argument holds much substance. FOSS developers are absolutely not lost without the source - they just share the fruit of their labor under FOSS licenses. In fact there's a good chunk of work being done black-box style: WINE, many of the drivers, game modding, hell here's a random FOSS binary patcher[0]. So FOSS developers don't seem to be lost without the source.

[0] https://github.com/secretsquirrel/the-backdoor-factory

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