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There has been a lot of talk lately about big cloud companies using open source projects and forking them privately. I think the principles of the FSF are becom
by diegocg 5y ago
There has been a lot of talk lately about big cloud companies using open source projects and forking them privately. I think the principles of the FSF are becoming more and more relevant, not less.
People considered the GPLv3 excessive. Now we see tivoization everywhere, and people cries because corporations are soooo evil. Well, maybe you should not use licences that let them do that. People who think the FSF is too idealistic are missing the point - the FSF is terribly realistic, it's the ones who don't care about software freedom who end up learning the hard way why the FSF exists.
- bombcar 5y agoWhat we're seeing is not tivoization but instead clouding - you have to go to the Affero GPL to protect against that. But that's a separate fight than the original GPL fight, and not necessarily one that really should be fought with the same fervor.
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