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Question Answered By: Adah Miller   on Nov 26

If a company finds profit in someones work, The company should not be
underhanded in the contracts they have with the workers.

Most of the people working on Ubuntu volunteer their time, Not to help
keep a company in business, but because they believe in Open Source.
The efforts to build something that no one company can thwart.

By playing an underhanded role, that is behind closed doors, by adding
code that is not open into a product that is advertized as being so, may
one day destroy the Ubuntu community of volunteer developers. In the
process making the code produced by volunteers, difficult to separate.

One day these volunteers will leave Ubuntu and the distro will fail,
leaving many developers afraid to help with another distro.

Can you now see the harm that one company can cause to the Open Source
community?

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