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Comment by mxmilkiib

2 years ago

Corporate? That's not a sound way to describe the totality of the world of programmers that lean towards free/open and beyond.

Sure, closed-source communities exist and have for a long age, but many folk have grown beyond the ethos or tradition of closed releases for reasons like, IDK, competitive individualism for clout or potential code quality shame that AFAICT drive such corners of the software world, especially at the level of freeware, not just for business. It's certainly a new world for younger people who skipped the era when that was more prevalent.

If people don't like corporate, there are newer source available licence options that folk to the left of free/open have been advocating more recently.