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Re:Why Wolfram tech isn’t open source (2019) by rwmj on Saturday December 18, 2021 @10:58AM (#29605409)
Not necessarily. There are some true open source projects where the development model is some company "throwing code over the wall". Often they don't make it easy or even possible for anyone outside the company to contribute, they don't have an open repository or bug tracker, release only periodic tarballs, etc. But the license is OSI approved, such as GPL, BSD, etc. so in theory someone could fork the project.

TL;DR - development model != license

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Re:Why Wolfram tech isn’t open source (2019) by samhw on Saturday December 18, 2021 @02:32PM (#29607750)
> There are some true open source projects where the development model is some company "throwing code over the wall". Often they don't make it easy or even possible for anyone outside the company to contribute[...]

Google's V8 engine is essentially an example of this, though they do notionally have some framework for outside contributions (https://v8.dev/docs/contribute).

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