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Re:Why Free Software Is More Important Now Than Ever Before by tedunangst on Saturday September 28, 2013 @11:11PM (#6463949)
There have been kerfluffles in the past where people (companies) did exactly that. Gave someone a binary, then told them to download the source from somebody else. People got angry.
Re:Why Free Software Is More Important Now Than Ever Before by e12e on Saturday September 28, 2013 @11:59PM (#6464069)
Yes. But Debian wouldn't be angry if you pointed to them.

In the past, it's been business entities that have distributed considerable a number of binaries (I believe one case was with code running on a router?) -- and charged quite a bit for that (bundle) -- and yet been too cheap to host a copy of the code online.

Re:Why Free Software Is More Important Now Than Ever Before by dllthomas on Sunday September 29, 2013 @09:59AM (#6465192)
Usually those companies were shipping modified versions, and/or it wasn't possible to build your own modifications for the device. I don't recall an instance - though it may well just be that I'm ill informed - where "people got angry" just because a company wasn't mirroring something.