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> private equity will use open source, maximize profits from the Labour open source volunteers have done, and minimize costs wherever they can

Still a bizarre hill to die on. Were contributors misled about the license that allows a private or public company or a nonprofit org to use the software for profit?

Did Matt Mullenweg delude himself into thinking that only people who share his ethos about content would use the software?

Did noone learn anything from the lamentations that started with Berkley and ATT, continued with Redhat and most recently with Elastic-Amazon and Hashicorp-itself?

My impression is that Mullenweg is a thoughtful person, so maybe I'm missing something.



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