Has it ever been that a program creator was convinced to publish source code?

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asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 1 year ago

Or maybe FOSS community raised money to buy the license from him?

Or the FOSS community raised money to create a FOSS clone of the program?

Those would be interesting stories/programs to look at.

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