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In the specific case of Synergy, because it was originally open source and free. The people using the name Synergy now have sort of hijacked it. Synergy origina
by walrus01 6y ago
In the specific case of Synergy, because it was originally open source and free. The people using the name Synergy now have sort of hijacked it. Synergy originated at SGI.
- TheSpiceIsLife 6y agoFair point, thanks for the response.
- ddalex 6y agoIsn't often heard around HN that it's ok to charge for Open Source software ? If you don't want to pay for it, you're free to choose not to, but if others want to pay, what's in it for you? BTW the parts of Synergy that were Open Source are still Open Source, so you're free to download those and build them yourself if you so choose.
- j4yav 6y agoThey don’t make it very easy to do so - my understanding is that’s essentially what Barrier is (making it easy to use the open source parts of Synergy).