Eeehmm. I mean. I can understand not being ideologically aligned with Stallman and Co. I also agree that there must be lots of violations of the GPL out there

Eeehmm. I mean. I can understand not being ideologically aligned with Stallman and Co. I also agree that there must be lots of violations of the GPL out there. Software is often invisible. That said, I don’t think there’s many big companies out there openly doing it. If get caught, they comply with the minimum effort possible, but they comply. I don’t see them being blatant or cavalier about it. Two main reasons for me to avoid them: 1. The attitude makes them untrustworthy. If they are blatantly violating this, what else are they willing to ignore? They have obligations towards me as a consumer, for example. Will they respect those? Will they sale my data to others? 2. There’s no guarantee that they will continue being able to operate in my country. A judge could theoretically force them to close shop. So I’d rather not put my data on their product.