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		Maxion 5 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Malus – Clean Room as a Service Often OSS is used not because you want the software, but the software and the upkeep. So even with such a service, you're now just taking code in-house that you have to maintain as well.

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Spoom 4 days ago [–]

Realistically, if it in fact did take 5 minutes to do the cleanroom reimplementation, you could just process updates from the OSS source in realtime.

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