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minus-square/home/pineapplelover@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 hour agoFor profit companies can take it, close source it, and make it paid software. Which is why GPL is superior.
minus-squarekureta@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up3·47 minutes agoBut people can keep developing an open-source version, right?
minus-square/home/pineapplelover@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up2·40 minutes agoYeah but people can be stupid bastards. For some reason some people would rather get it from TurboTax than they would a github repo
Licensed CC0. Assholes.
Why assholes?
For profit companies can take it, close source it, and make it paid software. Which is why GPL is superior.
But people can keep developing an open-source version, right?
Yeah but people can be stupid bastards. For some reason some people would rather get it from TurboTax than they would a github repo