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by genmud 1961 days ago
You act as though Open Source is somehow mutually exclusive with profits and a sustainable business.

> Otherwise, it's like "free" google products; here today, gone tomorrow.

Respectfully, I disagree... google products are introduced as services, not open source and they shut them down often. If an OSS project is useful and has community support, you can always fork it.