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I've seen that some instances have already done it preemptively.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I believe there are many instances were corporate involvement has added to open source. A lot of the Linux kernel is maintained by corporations.

[โ€“] Bread 2 points 2 years ago

Sure, but the Linux kernel is an extremely time consuming thing to maintain and is not worth privatizing for most companies as it rarely is a source of profit instead of infrastructure. There is little competitive edge to doing so. Meta however has a very good reason to bring in a bunch of new users to their platform and theirs only. Considering their history, it is reasonable to be distrustful.