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0 pointsCheezeIt4y ago0 comments

No it can’t.

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kube-system4y ago· 2 in thread

I bought my first Linux distro in a box on a shelf in a store.

CheezeItOP4y ago

Be serious.

kube-system4y ago

I am serious. And Red Hat had $3.4 billion in revenue the year it was acquired. There are plenty of people getting paid to write open source software. The top contributors to open source projects are frequently for-profit companies. Open source != hobbyist.

There’s nothing about paid software development that requires source code to be kept private.

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latexr4y ago

Keka[1] and Textual[2] are both open-source and you can pay for them on the Mac App Store or direct purchase. The former gives you compiled builds either way; the latter only if you pay.

[1]: https://github.com/aonez/Keka

[2]: https://github.com/Codeux-Software/Textual

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