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		hsbauauvhabzb 9 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Apple randomly closes bug reports unless you "veri... So build barely usable products that force people to pay for support as an upsell.

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dTal 8 days ago [–]

Aka the Red Hat business model. It's all you have when access to the product itself is free. Gotta keep yourself in the loop somehow.

hsbauauvhabzb 7 days ago | [–]

‘Oh you want to access help documents indexed by google? Please show us your enterprise licence to continue.’

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