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		jimmaswell on June 11, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A Facebook crawler was making 7M requests per day ... I don't feel entitled to it, I just consider the prevalence of copyleft bad for the developer community. License however you want, doesn't mean I'm entitled for criticizing it. What might be stinking of entitlement is the idea users have an inalienable right to source code.

vertex-four on June 13, 2020 [–]

What about the prevalence of proprietary software? You can’t use that for anything without making a contract with the author either.

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