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> @0xTMK: Why do companies acquire open source software companies if everyone can already access the repos?
> @mitchellh: Because code by itself isn't valuable. Coding is the easy part.
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globalnode • today at 5:54 AM
if code by itself isnt valuable, why are companies reportedly trying to increase their code output with ai while letting people go or letting their skills rot? which is it, is code valuable or isnt it?
That question isn't really applicable to this situation, since https://code.storage is the company's main product. It has a business model, customers, and revenue. The open source libraries are tangential.