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Note: Original report by Bloomberg, article by Reuters proxied by Neuters to bypass paywall.

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[–] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (4 children)

How do you force someone to sell something thats open source?

Can the government please force me to sell my open source software too? If they could be my sales department, I'd love that. Pretty please.

[–] ccdfa@lemm.ee 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Chromium is open source, Google bases their Chrome off of it, but Chrome is not open source.

[–] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 1 points 3 days ago

OK but 98% of chrome is open source then? Who would buy it?

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