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@lispi314 I am definitely living below the poverty line.

Honestly, I wouldn't really call it "living" but I have worse news for the "blocks them and then stops using their code" person:

FOSS is already in *everything*.

Always has been. Presumably, always will be.

OpenBSD's libc was forked and is in Android as bionic.

OpenBSD's pf and OpenSSH and LibreSSL are in macOS.

OpenBSD was the basis for Microsoft's SFU (Services For UNIX).

As just, a few examples.

You can't get away from open source software, period.

The TCP/IP stack widely (re)used by everyone on the Internet? Derived from Dr. Marshal Kirk McKusick's work as a grad student at UC Berkeley's CSRG/BSD too.

sendmail? The reference SMTP (email) server? Open source.

BIND? The reference DNS (domain name system) implementation? Open source.

@aral @kissane