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Is this meaningfully different from being able to build a multi-billion dollar company like Red Hat on top of other people’s GPLed work? Yes, because of the GP
by umanwizard 7y ago
Is this meaningfully different from being able to build a multi-billion dollar company like Red Hat on top of other people’s GPLed work?
Yes, because of the GPL, they have to give RHEL customers the source to all their patches, but what difference does this make in practice?
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- papln 7y ago> but what difference does this make in practice? they have to give RHEL customers the source to all their patches, and allow them to share it with the entire world. In practice, that means everyone gets better software, and RedHat gets compensation for their hard work.
- jeremyjh 7y ago> but what difference does this make in practice? CentOS is the difference; it is one of the most widely used distributions has the same stability and longevity characteristics and gets security fixes just as fast as RHEL.
- umanwizard 7y agoThat is a good point. Perhaps a better example would be FAANG making billions and running their servers on Linux, which (IIRC) is what things like the AGPL are designed to prevent.
- pabs3 7y agoThe AGPL wouldn't prevent FAANG making billions, just ensure they respect end-user freedom while doing so.