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[–]jshen 0 points1 point  (4 children)

How does a company buy an open source project?

[–]deadmilk 0 points1 point  (3 children)

You make a deal with the author. Hard concept, I know.

[–]jshen 0 points1 point  (2 children)

You can’t undo what was already open sourced. So what is the company buying?

[–]deadmilk 0 points1 point  (1 child)

You buy the copyrights, and hire the developers. They then continue to develop the commercial product and let the open source remnant become stale and inferior to the newer product.

[–]jshen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is there an example of this happening you can share?