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0 pointspessimizer2y ago0 comments

> it's also a sign that you fear your offering is not competitive enough without the rule change.

Agreed. It can't mean anything other than that you can't compete on a fair playing field, so you have to add restrictions to lock customers into your service. That you wrote the service is irrelevant since you licensed it as a gift to the world. It's exactly what Free Software was designed to thwart, and exactly what open source was designed to preserve.

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evanelias2y ago

But how can you ever have a "fair playing field" when some competitors are a thousand times larger than you?

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evanelias2y ago

But how can you ever have a "fair playing field" when some competitors are a thousand times larger than you?

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