• Martin@feddit.nu
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    7 months ago

    I agree with this but I suspect that a lot of the backend is dependent on other in-house infrastructure so it’s not as easy as most people think.

    • dadarobot@lemmy.sdf.org
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      7 months ago

      Yes, but hiring some devs to modify the code to be run on a home server could be seen as an investment towards saving the cost of running the servers themselves.

      If a company is going broke and cant afford to port the code to a home market, they could simply open source it, and let the fans do the work.

      And as i mentioned to the other guy, i think this should be the law.

    • Katana314@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      Worse, it might depend on licensed infrastructure. Maybe a company can stand giving away their proprietary server, but they can’t legally give away a library toolkit they purchased a $300,000 non-transferable license for. That kind of middleware is extremely common in the industry.