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Re:Stop Building on Corporate-Controlled Languages by arka2147483647 on Wednesday January 18, 2023 @03:50PM (#34432897)
If they employ the core team, and own the immaterial rigths, they could

1. Make next version propietary, or particially propietary

2. Keep updating the closed version, no more core team for open version

3. After some time the open version is too oudated, too far behind the propietary version

4. Ambiquity on lisencing also deteriorates intrest

For examples see, Qt, MySql, Java

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Re:Stop Building on Corporate-Controlled Languages by skybrian on Wednesday January 18, 2023 @04:47PM (#34433590)
It's true that the health of an open source fork isn't guaranteed when there's a split, but OpenJDK looks healthy? I haven't been following Java much.
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