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by TheCleric 192 days ago
It would also be, in my opinion, very against the spirit of Open Source to require an account to download code for a piece of software.
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The spirit of open source doesn't account for garbage scrappers using mass botnets.
As if Microsoft/GitHub (closed source platform) care about open source or free software…
But download all of them? There is a line here where it becomes absurd to me.