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Elon Musk Offers to Also Ruin Wikipedia (www.rollingstone.com)

submitted 1 year ago by Gork@lemm.ee to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] catgirl2005@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago (17 children)

Is there anything that stops Elon Musk from buying Lemmy or Mastadon? Even if everyone were to migrate over to the Fediverse, what stops these websites from being bought as well?

[–] Thelaststandn@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don’t really know the legalitys, but there’s a few things in elons way:

Whoever has control over Lemmy would have to be willing to sell it, pretty sure Elon couldn’t take over lemmy like he did twitter
It’s open source, how/can does one even turn something like lemmy closed-source?
If it was made closed source by Elon, what of the forks that already exist? Can anything be does to threaten their ongoing existence?

I don’t know the answers to 2&3, but I’m pretty sure 1 holds true; Elon can’t buy something if the owner refuses to sell.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

Lemmy cannot be made closed source due to the irrevocable perpetual license and the viral nature of GPL licenses, especially AGPL.

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