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When company X that the hivemind dislikes makes it to the news, they are often criticized with not open sourcing their product Y. When they finally open source it, they are met with "Too late!". Sometimes there is no winning with people who have already made up their mind.

>Too little

Really? Its MS, their core products and the open source we are talking about. Heck they even open sourced it under a liberal license.



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