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nness 10 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Amazon owes $525M in cloud-storage patent fight, U...

Open Source software is an awful example because by-and-large no one gets paid to do make it.

OSS doesn't exist to spite IP, it exists because of IP rights protect creators from others stealing their work.

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