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Re:Unity's oldest community announces dissolution by marcosdumay on Monday September 25, 2023 @08:50PM (#37652897)
What you mean?

Open source completely avoid this one problem. Apache-style development was created exactly for that.

You can complain that it's way overkill and a company doesn't actually need that level of assurance. But you can't claim it's not sufficient.

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Re:Unity's oldest community announces dissolution by __d on Tuesday September 26, 2023 @09:25PM (#37668524)
Having a tarball of the source code for something isn't the same as having the community, the history, the culture, the processes, the infrastructure ... all the accumulated other stuff that makes up an open source project.

Without the concentration of diverse efforts that go into maintaining and advancing a project, having the source code (alone) is of minimal benefit.

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