> Apache and commercial no-cost is not the same. They are the same in the sense that they are both not GPL. They just illustrate the spectrum of licenses that

> Apache and commercial no-cost is not the same. They are the same in the sense that they are both not GPL. They just illustrate the spectrum of licenses that are not ideologically aligned with FSF, but may still do the job. > As for the software products: they are still very common. I will just repeat myself: there are some successes, but this is not the majority of the software. It’s just the tip of the iceberg. There’s enormous pile of proprietary software, that is absolutely not free or open source. Think of Google, Facebook or Salesforce codebase. Think of all the banking or military software. Even some Linux distro can be dwarfed by those applications.