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> if the corp goes belly up or insane, you can in theory fork the project Yes: for a small + useful + easy to maintain project. No: for bloated or difficult t
by goodpoint 4y ago
> if the corp goes belly up or insane, you can in theory fork the project
Yes: for a small + useful + easy to maintain project.
No: for bloated or difficult to build projects, which makes most of popular browsers, corp-driven programming languages, devops tools, office suites, corp-driven IDEs, Linux distros...
Not to mention non-copyleft licenses that allow proprietization and discourage communties.