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LocalStack Archives GitHub Repo, Now Requires Account to Run

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LocalStack, a widely used open-source tool that emulates AWS services for local development and testing, archived its GitHub repository and moved to a model requiring users to create an account before running the software. The change drew immediate criticism from the developer community, which had relied on LocalStack as a free, self-hosted alternative to running tests against live AWS infrastructure. The tool is used Developers on Hacker News and GitHub pointed to the move as another example of open-source projects pulling up the ladder after building their user base on community contributions.
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