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FOSS can always be forked, which puts some pressure on developers/maintainers to not be too egregious. This is hardly new BTW. I remember switching from LimeWi
by chriswarbo 4y ago
FOSS can always be forked, which puts some pressure on developers/maintainers to not be too egregious.
This is hardly new BTW. I remember switching from LimeWire to FrostWire to avoid ads a couple of decades ago.
- ianai 4y agoI don't remember limewire being FOSS.
- chriswarbo 4y agoIt's GPL, and as far as I remember always was. For example https://lwn.net/Articles/143220 https://lwn.net/Articles/143220 LimeWire: Open source brings commercial success (NewsForge) [Posted July 11, 2005 by corbet] NewsForge looks at the business behind LimeWire, an open source Gnutella client. ""On the development side, LimeWire LLC engages open source developers by paying bounties for features. Small bounties, listed as being 'good for beginners,' pay $50; medium bounties, 'good for learning the intricacies of the code,' pay $200; and large bounties, for projects that are 'difficult, but very useful,' pay $500.""