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>It's... not. Open Source is not a business model, nor a collective organizing principle, bargaining process, etc. It's just source code a couple of people have commit access to.

It's... not. (just access to source)

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point....

in fact that's one of the driving characteristic differences between open source and FOSS; one is accompanied with a set of guiding moral and ethical principals regarding fundamental user freedom.



None of that is related how you organize a business using the code though.




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