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Sounds like their intricate build process is in service of their business model. Pretty crappy thing to do.

• inemesitaffia 3y ago
  How so? Open source means customers get source. You're not customer so why would you get the product itself( the product isn't the source)
  • rezonant 3y ago
    That's not what open source itself means, no. Open source means everyone gets source, not only customers. What you are referring to is often labelled shared source. For instance, Microsoft offers the Windows source code to some customers for reference purposes, but that source is not allowed to be built or distributed. It's fine to build a business model around your open source project. It's fine to charge for builds as your business model. What is not fine is purposefully obfuscating the process needed to build that open source software to encourage users to just pay for the builds. That's shady and counter to the spirit of open source.
    • inemesitaffia 3y ago
      I'm probably mixing this up with free software somehow.