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A comment on Ask HN: How to acquire any open source project?.

Re:Ask HN: How to acquire any open source project? by pabs3 on Tuesday August 05, 2025 @11:58PM (#44807478)
You can send an email to the owner offering payment in exchange for handing over the project. Usually they will laugh at you or think you are trying to scam them though.
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Re:Ask HN: How to acquire any open source project? by gus_massa on Wednesday August 06, 2025 @09:42PM (#44819737)
I agree. A few projects has been sold and the new maintainer used the automatic update to install adware or other spammy stuff, so I also expect that most maintainer will get more suspicious than happy.
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