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> It enriches everyone Well, except the users. Say EvilCompany takes the code, puts in in their buggy operating system, distributes it under a commercial lice
by mr_toad 7y ago
> It enriches everyone
Well, except the users.
Say EvilCompany takes the code, puts in in their buggy operating system, distributes it under a commercial license, and then you end up being prevented from fixing the code that you wrote.
Because that’s what happened to RMS, and that’s why we have the GPL.
It’s freedom; not for the author, and it’s not freedom for the developers or the vendors, it’s freedom for the users.