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by quadrangle 4547 days ago
It's wonderful, but the absurd thing is the whole protective start-up culture that thinks this is crazy. The truth is that people ought to not trust businesses whose main function is to lock you in with trade secrets and other anti-competitive measures.

Obviously the only real risk to their business would be if someone else completely outdoes them, like does everything they do and better with their codebase. Simple clones are competition. Yes, competition makes things harder. But isn't competition what all these capitalists say is the answer to things anyway?? These guys are among the few non-hypocrites.

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> Simple clones are competition.

Will they be able to combat them with better code?