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		JonChesterfield on June 1, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Arthur Whitney releases an open-source subset of K... Defining substantial as written by a team over a long period of time seems to be putting the value in the wrong place. Is the important thing what the software does, or that it took a lot of people a long time to write it?

magicalhippo on June 1, 2024 [–]

I didn't say long time to write it. I said maintained by a team over time.

Sure there might be some substantial software that was written as a one-off (ie not modified after release), but that's the minority by far.

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