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Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2023) by mdekkers on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @02:31AM (#36967688)
The poster I replied to indicated that the “making money” part could come later.

It is easy enough to have a volunteering agreement that catches this with clauses. Open sourcing the code won’t help with that scenario anyway.

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Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2023) by theLiminator on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @01:43PM (#36974220)
But if it were open source, volunteers could fork and self-host the application and create their own competing non-profit/organization.
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Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2023) by mdekkers on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @04:25PM (#36976848)
It’s a content-driven website with user submissions. They don’t even claim copyright or ownership on the content, which is the actual thing that makes up the unique value.

Open source what, exactly? You point makes literally zero sense

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