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Oh no, it would've been worse from the fact that Microsoft and Oracle used BSD code in their proprietary OS's whose code they certainly didn't share. Plus, all
by nickpsecurity 8y ago
Oh no, it would've been worse from the fact that Microsoft and Oracle used BSD code in their proprietary OS's whose code they certainly didn't share. Plus, all the money they made let them fight against software freedoms with monopolistic schemes, lobbying, and lawsuits. It's much worse than just an open product with extensions.
- speedplane 8y agoThis already exists... Android is MIT licensed and nearly every cell phone vendor has incompatible proprietary extensions.
- nickpsecurity 8y agoIt's Apache 2.0 and it did lead to incompatible, proprietary extensions: https://source.android.com/setup/start/licenses https://source.android.com/setup/start/licenses