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Cal.com moved its core codebase to a private repo after five years of open source, arguing AI tools make public code 5-10x easier to exploit. The community isn't buying it.
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Cal.com moved its core codebase to a private repo after five years of open source, arguing AI tools make public code 5-10x easier to exploit. The community isn't buying it.

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