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Companies Might Soon Have to Tell You When Their Products Will Die (www.wired.com)
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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Too risky. Who knows what's hiding in their code. Might be some copylefted library or a piece of code that's been copy-pasted into the project without fully complying with the copyleft requirements. Making sure this isn't the case and/or cleaning up an abandoned project can be costly and complicated. Easier for them to just kill it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 hours ago

Are you describing WinAmp ?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I love the distaste for the word that is opposite of left/the side of the political spectrum where fascism resides

[–] [email protected] 13 points 18 hours ago

There is actualy a definition for the term "copyleft".