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Tell that to all the proprietary software that got OpenSourced
Oh you mean the broken "replacement" for Photoshop?
The one that wasn't needed since we have GIMP and Krita?
Yeah that was fucking worth annihilating whatever teeth the GPL and associated copy-left licenses had left.
its a movement, i dont endorse the projects themselves but it sends a clear message
We already sent it, and it was with Krita and GIMP.
Fuck the message "we don't need developers", the message was supposed to be "programmers don't need corporations."