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Expurple • last Friday at 4:03 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

True, but the article makes a point that it's very hard and unlikely to maintain technological superiority over a coproration that's determined enough. A corporation simply has much more resources. See also: https://hypercritical.co/2013/04/12/code-hard-or-go-home

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phkahler • last Friday at 4:40 PM

>> technological superiority

Haha. I work on Solvespace which is technically inferior to FreeCAD, which is also inferior to the big commercial offerings. We shall have our MVP in a few more years! Most our contributors would not be working on it under an MIT license. I certainly would not.

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ranger_danger • last Friday at 4:06 PM

> maintain technological superiority

Is this ever an actual goal for most GPL projects? Usually the ones I talk to are not even interested in gaining more users.

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