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Re:Despite best efforts .NET is still not an open platform by cm2187 on Thursday June 16, 2022 @05:51AM (#31764187)
Particularly the logic “your code is not open source” = “you are evil”…
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Re:Despite best efforts .NET is still not an open platform by Ygg2 on Thursday June 16, 2022 @08:46AM (#31765417)
Closed source code definitely goes against the right to repair/own/modify.
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Re:Despite best efforts .NET is still not an open platform by eropple on Thursday June 16, 2022 @10:01AM (#31766142)
Does it? If I sell you a widget and make available to you that widget's code, with strict prohibitions on copying and sharing, that's not open-source--but you can repair and modify it.
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Re:Despite best efforts .NET is still not an open platform by Ygg2 on Thursday June 16, 2022 @10:28AM (#31766468)
Right. But what happens if another customer has the same issue, you are prohibited from sharing it.

Once you deal with all edge cases. You end up with an OSS license.

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