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Libxml2's "no security embargoes" policy

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278 points jwilk | 1 comments | 25 Jun 25 19:36 UTC | HN request time: 0.365s | source
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kibwen ◴[25 Jun 25 22:01 UTC] No.44382195[source]▶
> Ariadne Conill, a long-time open-source contributor, observed that corporations using open source had responded with ""regulatory capture of the commons"" instead of contributing to the software they depend on.

I'm only half-joking when I say that one of the premier selling points of GPL over MIT in this day and age is that it explicitly deters these freeloading multibillion-dollar companies from depending on your software and making demands of your time.

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spott ◴[26 Jun 25 02:03 UTC] No.44383593[source]▶
This makes an assumption that a bunch of companies are maintaining their own forks of MIT software with bug fixes and features and not giving it back.

I find that hard to believe.

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