What Tobias Lütke thinks about open source
Co-founder and CEO of Shopify; long-time Linux user and Omarchy contributor.
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Their wordsBut the company could have had someone improve it at any point of time, right? It's not yours. It's like we don't allow people to use word ownership over parts of codebase or so. We only allow stewardship as a work,
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