As I was reading your sentence "go through the effort it takes to violate the GPL instead of..." I was expecting the "instead of" to be just publish the necessa

As I was reading your sentence "go through the effort it takes to violate the GPL instead of..." I was expecting the "instead of" to be just publish the necessary source code. That seems pretty easy to me. It's probably easier than trying to get non-GPL versions of things like Linux, which tends to have more widespread hardware support (like, a full set of drivers) than, say, NetBSD. And I say "probably" because I expect these companies have been taking the easy way out. The BSDs still have to rely on Linux compatibility layers in order to use Linux drivers, right?