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Could you elaborate on the details? It seems like a pretty silly thing, to engage in duplicitous business practices to sell more… free code.



Usually, it is in non-pertinent ABI/API breakage.

And companies which are making a business at upgrading components like openssl are the ones which would be targetted for a planned obsolescence crack down.

Usually, it is c++ ABI issues (those are usually a massive pain), or glibc versioning manic usage, since there are rarely API/ABI breakages in many crypto libs.




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