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Winamp deletes entire GitHub source code repo after a rocky few weeks

(arstechnica.com)
431 points dangle1 | 1 comments | 16 Oct 24 16:34 UTC | HN request time: 0.201s | source
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moomin ◴[16 Oct 24 19:18 UTC] No.41862778[source]▶
This, btw, is why open sourcing proprietary software rarely happens: you actually have to go to a fair amount of careful effort to get it right. If you don’t, you end up with this debacle.
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1. guenthert ◴[17 Oct 24 09:04 UTC] No.41867729[source]▶
Well, of course you will have to be the more careful when open sourcing proprietary code, the more you illegally used copyrighted code earlier.