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_m7bj on June 14, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why Open Source Misses the Point of Free Software

>If you GPLed your application, there's no licencing headaches.

There'd be way less special snowflake implementations of security protocols, login mechanisms and account systems if this wasn't the prevailing attitude in the open source community.

anonbanker on June 14, 2015 [–]

someone's pretending that OpenBSD not only doesn't exist, but doesn't define most of those security protocols.

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