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by ekianjo 3407 days ago
So their strategy is to go full-blown closed source?
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antoncohen 3407 days ago
The OS Fuchsia, including the kernel Magenta, appears to be open source, mostly under BSD 3-clause, with parts of the kernel under MIT and similar licenses.

https://fuchsia.googlesource.com/fuchsia/+/master/LICENSE

https://fuchsia.googlesource.com/magenta/+/master/LICENSE

https://fuchsia.googlesource.com/

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bretpiatt 3407 days ago
K8s is Apache 2.0. Who's to say they don't open the whole project when ready as they have in other cases?

Source: https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/blob/master/LICENSE

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sreenadh 3407 days ago
Open sourcing the product will help the competition to catch up quickly, all they have to do is take googles product and change its look. The next half is infrastructure, which companies like Microsoft, facebook, amazon, alibaba all have. Plus services like AWS will help future version of dropbox & netflix.

A good example of that is Visual code. I am sure some at github (atom's paprent) is pissed.

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jryan49 3407 days ago
Wikipedia says it's not a fork of atom but based on electron. Does that make a difference?
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mahyarm 3407 days ago
VS code is MIT licensed although... And standalone web app in a slightly modified browser window isn't a high moat.
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brianon99 3407 days ago
I mean they just hate GPL, not open source. Just look at the removal of BlueZ GPL library in 2012.

[1]https://lwn.net/Articles/597293/

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