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Good, now can we get a ruling that prevents Google, RedHat, Microsoft and others from wrecking FLOSS projects with their stifling influence? Or prevent them fr
by xforeigner 5y ago
Good, now can we get a ruling that prevents Google, RedHat, Microsoft and others from wrecking FLOSS projects with their stifling influence?
Or prevent them from eradicating competing or even original projects by doing hostile rewrites or forks?
- kps 5y agoShould we also get rid of all of GNU's hostile rewrites?
- curt15 5y agoPeople seem to frequently forget that GNU was largely a GPL reimplementation of proprietary software.
- andrewnicolalde 5y ago> Or prevent them from eradicating competing or even original projects by doing hostile rewrites or forks? Wouldn't this directly contravene the findings in this case?
- qalmakka 5y agoWhy would you prevent someone from writing whatever code they want, as long as it is FOSS? That's hypocritical, considering that doing whatever you want with the code is one of GNU's main tenets ("free as in freedom")