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		canofbars on Sept 13, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Makani source code released I think the main obstacle is these things often contain licensed code the company does not have permission to open source.

tobinfricke on Sept 13, 2020 [–]

That's right; or the IP gets sold to someone and never sees the light of day. Think of BeOS (sold to Palm Inc) etc.

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