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 @freezr and then you get forks that the community moves to pretty easily, like Tenacity. Same thing happened with OpenOffice getting bought by Sun, and LibreOffice getting forked and taking over the userbase. Same with XFree86 and Xorg. And many, many more examples. FLOSS does not guarantee there will not be any risks and problems, of course. But offers a *workable* way out if fit does hit the shan. @rysiek But this is up to the communities if they are willing to move or stay, it is not a solution... For instance there are still plenty of OpenOffice users that doesn't know anything about LibreOffice... The power of the branding... @freezr sure, but it's still a leaps and bounds better situation than "I am stuck with this proprietary software and have zero possible alternatives"  @rysiek As a counter point, Nessus. Once a great FOSS vulnerability scanner, and now proprietary. The point still stands, don’t get involved with corporateware and don’t sign over the copyright to the code. |
@freezr it cannot buy FLOSS. That's why I am talking about FLOSS front-and-center there.
Remember how it bought Figma? Well, good luck buying @penpot. Sun bought OpenOffice and when it started doing shenanigans LibreOffice got forked and everyone switched overnight.