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by lelanthran 807 days ago
I think maybe you're being overly cynical (yes yes, I did see your username!)

Sometimes, large companies open-source a SaaS product because they expect to make more money from the free marketing (See yesterdays post about headline-driven development) even though their implementation remains closed.

We still give them news-space, don't we? Why should we act any differently for solo developers?