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Ask HN: Why don't companies open-source the source code of their old products?
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“we open-sourced Theora (initally called VP3) partly because I (the CTO at the time) worried that if the company failed, all our IP would be …”
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Ask HN: Why don't companies open-source the source code of their old products?
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