At first I was sceptical, but after a few thought, I came to the solution that, if uutils can do the same stuff, is/stays actively maintained and more secure/safe (like memory bugs), this is a good change.

What are your thoughts abouth this?

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    Competitive improvements the company makes make be kept secret, re packaged, and sold without making contributions to the src code.

    Basically embrace, extend, extinguish

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      Ideas can only be patented, not copyrighted. If a company designs something novel enough to qualify for a patent, and so good that people willingly pay for the feature, that’s impressive, and arguably still a good thing. If instead they design a better user experience, or an improvement in performance, the ideas can be used in open source, even when the code cannot be.

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        Patents kill innovation. No one should be granted rights to a concept purely because they got to it first. It’s still really.

        I didn’t even say anything about copyright or patent?