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Comment by gkbrk

5 hours ago

> we know how those go

They get forked and stay open source? At least this is what happens to all the popular ones. You can't really un-open-source a project if users want to keep it open-source.

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stingraycharles  5 hours ago

Depends on your definition of popular; plenty of examples where the business interests don't align well with open source.

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