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by yawaramin 1063 days ago
I'm sure that will come as a surprise to all their open source GitHub repos.
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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.
I was responding to the 'without giving back' part, I nowhere implied that IBMers in general have the right to demand others' work.