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by RunSet 686 days ago
Foobar2000 is parasitic in the sense that many of the plugins that give foobar2000 its value are open-source ports of open-source software, yet the foobar2000 software that hosts the plugins is proprietary.

Feels like when Disney makes a movie version of a public domain folktale and then lobbies to perpetually extend the copyright on it.