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allthetimeyesterday at 3:29 PM1 replyview on HN

Running out of money is never the issue with a big company buying an open source project. There are countless examples of projects dying or changing significantly for the worse after acquisition.

Also “no human wrote any of this code” is not my personal benchmark for a reliable dependency.


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pessimizeryesterday at 7:12 PM

> Running out of money is never the issue with a big company buying an open source project.

I'm going to dare to say that running out of money was often an issue before a big company bought an open source project.