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Problem is, they should realise this only creates a gap for a competitor or even worse (from the companies’ perspective) a viable open source project that they’ll never be able to compete on price with.

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Their solution is to buy them in most cases. It’s gets hard to turn down $100M.

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Fork that.

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If the licence is already open source then they can’t do shit. Unfortunately, they have other methods of discouraging programmers from working on the project, but ultimately open source will prevail.

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