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Here's a serious question.

Countless stories of companies turning back from open source to restrictive licenses.

Will open source survive? Except maybe the iconic projects that have already a certain status such as Linux, LLVM etc?



Free and Open Source software did not start with corporate sponsorship, it will not die from lack of it.


> Countless stories of companies turning back from open source to restrictive licenses. > Will open source survive? Except maybe the iconic projects that have already a certain status such as Linux, LLVM etc?

I’d say that 95% of open-source is made by normal people like you and me, not by companies. Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/2347/




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