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The Kindle runs on Linux, so the issue is more: Why did they screw up the GPL (< version 3) to allow an open-source operating system to run on a jailed device?
by zandorg 17y ago
The Kindle runs on Linux, so the issue is more: Why did they screw up the GPL (< version 3) to allow an open-source operating system to run on a jailed device?
- gwern 17y agoIn 1989, why would jailed devices be a concern for Stallman? Copyleft was still a novel and uncertain idea, used only on a few GNU projects; if the GPL's smashing popularity since '89 is a screw up, may God grant us a success!