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minus-squareWalnutLum@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 months agoThey said they can’t do that in the article: but at the same time, we cannot ‘take over’ the application identifiers for the open-source apps we distribute, as that would effectively seize exclusive distribution rights to those applications
They said they can’t do that in the article: