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> The source is available, you can make your own changes, you can distribute them or even start a business but that's not enough for most people/companies. You
by jlarocco 3y ago
> The source is available, you can make your own changes, you can distribute them or even start a business but that's not enough for most people/companies.
You really can't in the original sense, though. A person using Facebook, Spotify, or YouTube can't make any modifications to those products whatsoever despite a lot of the code being "open source". It was never about taking somebody else's code and making a business.
More disappointing, users often don't even have direct access to their own data on those services.