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companies release software when they hope that the cost of the freeloaders is outweighed by the number of benefit additional contributors will provide

Lols, is this how you view open source?

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I have seen enough companies weigh opening their source-code to know that is exactly the calculus many of them use. I don't pretend that a single sentence summary captures every detail and consideration though.

That sentence has nothing to do with my own opinion of free software.

How do you imagine a company evaluates the decision to open their software?

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