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		jrpt on Dec 11, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: “Open source” is broken Stuff like that already exists. Companies barely donate. In my opinion, more packages should require licensing fees from companies.

senko on Dec 11, 2021 | [–]

I like opening the code I write. I don't plan on having two customers paying me $5/mo each for my super obscure piece of code.

Are we really going to blame log4j2 authors who, for all we know, don't care if someone else is using their project?

mcguire on Dec 11, 2021 | [–]

Because the corporate purchasing system works so well....

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