Article 4WMNM FUSE for macOS: Why a popular open source library became closed source and commercially licensed

FUSE for macOS: Why a popular open source library became closed source and commercially licensed

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Story ImageMaintainer: 'Most companies were reluctant to support the project their product depends on because it is available for free'

Interview In May this year, users of popular open source project FUSE for macOS noticed the source code for the latest update was missing. The project had become closed source and was no longer free for commercial use. But as The Reg discovered when we had a talk with its maintainer, there was a very good reason for that - and it's not a good look for the many companies that used it."

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