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[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

Their solution is to buy them in most cases. It's gets hard to turn down $100M.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

If the licence is already open source then they can't do shit. Unfortunately, they have other methods of discouraging programmers from working on the project, but ultimately open source will prevail.