And yet, without something like the GPL, you can be sure that the majority of improvements would eventually be sealed off behind doors and high walls. The whole

And yet, without something like the GPL, you can be sure that the majority of improvements would eventually be sealed off behind doors and high walls. The whole reason for-profits wouldn't want to touch your work is because they would make _less_ profit, not _no_ profit. The real impact, as we see now (such as in BigPharma[0]), is things being more expensive than they need be with cheap alternatives being actively suppressed. [0] https://www.aarp.org/politics-society/advocacy/info-2019/generic-drug-barriers.html https://www.aarp.org/politics-society/advocacy/info-2019/gen...