"I Can't Keep It Up" | Last free speech site going down Christmas day

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[–][deleted] 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Nah, I believe most of the license fees were for SQL server or something, multiple SQL servers I imagine. The voat leadership was just never interested in it being a community project, not for the last few years at least, I wasn't there in the WhoaVerse days. Plenty of us were in there begging them to port the shit to linux.

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Oh, okay. That's quite odd, that they wouldn't release the code, then. I don't think they'd sit on the IP, but maybe?

[–]magnora7 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I read something on one of the comments from the announcement thread that they may have sold the rights to it to a company long ago, and thus legally cannot release the code. And that may also include an NDA that prevents him from speaking about this stuff.

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Perhaps that's why they're acting so strange.