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by davidw 5199 days ago
Yes, really. They contribute a lot back, and are good (model!) open source citizens, but they still distribute a great deal of code they haven't written.
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> but they still distribute a great deal of code they haven't written.

Don't we all? If you include my stack as part of my software, then really I only write like 1% ... I didn't write the OS, the SQL server, the http daemon, and the billion other things I'm dependent on. That's just how software works.