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The licenses used by Oracle, Microsoft, and friends are there to protect the monetary interests of Oracle, Microsoft, and friends. So, when you are caught viol
by LukeShu 9y ago
The licenses used by Oracle, Microsoft, and friends are there to protect the monetary interests of Oracle, Microsoft, and friends. So, when you are caught violating the license, they offer to make their license good, conditioned on you serving their monetary interest.
The licenses used by the FSF are there to protect the liberty of users. So, when you are caught violating the license, they offer to make their license good, conditioned on you restoring the users' liberty.
- crankylinuxuser 9y agoYes, and the liberty of the users (read: the price the developers would be if having to replace the violated code) is worth that much. How much is a team of developers for a month? So yeah, that's real money and time.