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Another view is that this has to do with how projects are managed. It is common to provide access to sources. Accepting submissions of changes to add features or fix bugs depends on who considers them to be improvements and why. If you want to really own a problem and cannot get the managers of the project to accept your changes then you need to fork. This issue exists with both free and open source but ownership is more directly asserted with open source.

Saying this is money does not seem to mesh with the world we live in where RedHat provides services with free copylefted software valued at billions of dollars. Free copylefted software is big money now for better or worse.




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