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dragonwriter on July 1, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: The new 501(c)(3) and the future of free software ...

> How should all organizations which happen to open-source code automatically be "for profit"

They aren't. See, inter alia, the Apache Software Foundation. "BOLO" doesn't mean "blanket prohibition".

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