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Re:Gitlab from YC to IPO by atonse on Thursday October 14, 2021 @08:40PM (#28872352)
Open sourcing .NET under an Apache license was a great move. And so was making it cross platform. I surely missed C# my first few years without it.

Open Source isn’t some weird religion where it only matters if you open source the stuff that makes you money.

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Re:Gitlab from YC to IPO by harry8 on Friday October 15, 2021 @12:16AM (#28874222)
How does that work with their patent threats? Eg against mono, gnome, tomtom(?) for using a Free implementation of the fat filesystem?

I haven't been following it but is all that renounced so it can't possibly come back or be applied to the next people?

My first reaction is "How do we know that releasing the code isn't just bait?"

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Re:Gitlab from YC to IPO by ekianjo on Friday October 15, 2021 @05:03AM (#28875778)
> Open Source isn’t some weird religion where it only matters if you open source the stuff that makes you money.

Yet they love Open Source so much they use patents aggressively to extract resources from the Android project.

Don't believe all the BS made by the Microsoft PR.

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