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		blooalien on Sept 19, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: There is no “software supply chain” Or you can get "quality" (or support) by paying the author (or some other developer) to support / improve said software within the legal terms of whatever license that software is released under.

hinkley on Sept 20, 2022 [–]

Which we used to be able to do a lot more. Many of those companies are out of business or merged with a mega corporation.

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