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userbinator 87 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Microsoft Office 2019 and 2021 for Mac view-only c...

They're open-sourcing things either because they get no value from them anymore, or just want more unpaid "community" labour.

emodendroket 87 days ago [–]

OK well that's the whole "open source" model. It's not some Microsoft perversion of it. The reason they moved from "free software" to "open source" was specifically rejecting the ideological stuff that would prevent business exploitation

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