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lol why is it so long

i'm confused. are you asking why there are so many posts? there is a max char limit per post.

if you're asking why they have 17 sections, a preamble, and a how to section, that is explained in each section. it's a tautology, each section justifying itself.

i'm confused. are you asking why there are so many posts? there is a max char limit per post.

if you're asking why they have 17 sections, a preamble, and a how to section, that is explained in each section. it's a tautology, each section justifying itself.

it's too long

the MIT license can fit in a single post

scrap it and start over

get rid of open source its awful

if it were any good, every company would me making OSS

get rid of open source its awful

if it were any good, every company would me making OSS

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i like mozilla, vlc, signal, and unreal. i don't know how they sustain themselvs! i worry that I am their product

i don't know how android manages to be open source but still gets locked down by every entity in the purchase->user chain: google has weird spy apps that come with it, tower operators bundle their own uninstallable apps on, sometimes the manufacturer sends stuff.. at any point if you tamper with things in the wrong way, maybe your phone gets banned. it sucks. im really mad at my phone rn. its an android. its still better than apple tho.

i still think bitcoin sucks ass

but for real why isn't windows open source

security nerds talk up apple a lot but it's a closed garden and hell they sue people for reverse engineering their shit

so

why

these literally make up our technological backbone

missing a ton

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i like mozilla, vlc, signal, and unreal. i don't know how they sustain themselvs! i worry that I am their product

i don't know how android manages to be open source but still gets locked down by every entity in the purchase->user chain: google has weird spy apps that come with it, tower operators bundle their own uninstallable apps on, sometimes the manufacturer sends stuff.. at any point if you tamper with things in the wrong way, maybe your phone gets banned. it sucks. im really mad at my phone rn. its an android. its still better than apple tho.

i still think bitcoin sucks ass

The source code for Unreal Engine is available to anybody who registers a developer account on their website. They make money through licensing. You are free to read the source code, but if you use Unreal engine to make a game you need to pay a 5% royalty fee if the gross revenue from your game is over $3,000 a quarter.