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i see an oldtimer here :) yea.. well.. gpl/etc fight was lost. On the upside, we can take a look at wider benefit to society at whole. Through usage of gpl sof

by tguvot 3y ago

i see an oldtimer here :) yea.. well.. gpl/etc fight was lost. On the upside, we can take a look at wider benefit to society at whole. Through usage of gpl software, even in non-compliant way, were created a whole lot of companies (and jobs) and products that are widely used. Without it we might have had 1% of current selection and it would have been based on vxworks and totally locked down. you win some, you loose some

asdlfkjasdlfjkh 3y ago
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- tguvot 3y ago
  no, i don't assume that we would have been using dead/dated tech. There probably would have been new tech, but much less of it. Open source lowered threshold for developing new solutions, both boxed and *aaS. I worked in a bunch of startups, mostly in network and security areas. Without open source most of them wouldn't have been possible or not viable
  - asdlfkjasdlfjkh 3y ago
    > we can take a look at wider benefit to society at whole. my point is that no, we didn't.