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by UnixSchizoid 1062 days ago
Given their ownership and treatment of Red Hat I'm not shocked
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morelisp 1062 days ago
I'm sure there's literally any overlap at all between that and this.
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LoganDark 1062 days ago
A general culture at IBM of using open source software without giving back? Seems pretty strong in both cases.
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yawaramin 1062 days ago
I'm sure that will come as a surprise to all their open source GitHub repos.
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LoganDark 1062 days ago
It won't actually, because owning repositories doesn't automatically mean that you should be allowed to demand others' work for free without consequence, yet this is clearly how (a portion of) IBM views open-source software.
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yawaramin 1062 days ago
I was responding to the 'without giving back' part, I nowhere implied that IBMers in general have the right to demand others' work.
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UnixSchizoid 1062 days ago
exactly what I was going to respond with
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