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Discussion on: Magic is no longer Open Source

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Thomas Hansen

The problem with that approach is most people don't care, they go like "ohhh, useful code, I don't care about its license, nobody will anyways know" ...

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David Sugar • Edited

The ones who do care though are the gatekeepers to distributions and what they will permit to be packaged. If one's strategy includes having some things packaged and delivered as part of some distro, it is essential that those parts of what your doing will please them. Gatekeepers naturally always view themselves as the most important element in the software chain, too. I talk a little about this in my post about distro packaging...

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Thomas Hansen

Cool, my project doesn't fit the profile though, since it's a software development framework. It's got 10,500,000 downloads, and it generated zero revenue.