Another open source dev stops support because corporates won't pay

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Large corporations can save millions of dollars by using open source software - a practice that is legal but, developers argue, immoral
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Large corporations can save millions of dollars by using open source software - a practice that is legal but, developers argue, immoral

Christofer Dutz is the latest in a series of developers to down tools in protest at corporates' free use of their work

Christofer Dutz, the creator and lead developer of the free Apache PLC4X industrial automation library suite, has announced his intent to stop providing free community support for the PLC4X softwar...

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