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The Elastic License prohibits you from moving, changing, or disabling some of the software's functionality. It's a limited compromise, and I understand why it's necessary to achieve their business objective, but it's pretty straightforwardly not compatible with the open source ideal.

Imagine what the web would be like if React users weren't allowed to compete with Meta.



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