Chris Remington@beehaw.orgM to Technology@beehaw.org · 2 days agoIRS Makes Direct File Software Open Source After Trump Tried to Kill Itgizmodo.comexternal-linkmessage-square29fedilinkarrow-up1233arrow-down13file-textcross-posted to: opensource@lemmy.mlopensource@lemmy.ml
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minus-square/home/pineapplelover@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up6·1 day agoFor profit companies can take it, close source it, and make it paid software. Which is why GPL is superior.
minus-squarekureta@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up4·1 day agoBut people can keep developing an open-source version, right?
minus-square/home/pineapplelover@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up5·1 day agoYeah but people can be stupid bastards. For some reason some people would rather get it from TurboTax than they would a github repo
For profit companies can take it, close source it, and make it paid software. Which is why GPL is superior.
But people can keep developing an open-source version, right?
Yeah but people can be stupid bastards. For some reason some people would rather get it from TurboTax than they would a github repo
Yeah. I see. Thanks for the replies.