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Allow me to disagree. GPL was a great idealistic dream that led to less-restrictive open-source licences such as MIT/BSD which have been the greatest catalyst t
by sph 2mo ago
Allow me to disagree. GPL was a great idealistic dream that led to less-restrictive open-source licences such as MIT/BSD which have been the greatest catalyst towards the establishment of tech corpo giants and the software ecosystem we have today.
GPL gave us Linux, but also gave us Amazon, Google and 2020s Microsoft. GPL is why 90+% of libraries on Github are MIT licensed. GPL gave us OpenAI and Anthropic and this here article.
- jasode 2mo ago>GPL was a great idealistic dream that led to less-restrictive open-source licences such as MIT The less restrictive ~1984 MIT early version of the software license was several years before ~1989 GPL v1.
- IsTom 2mo ago> but also gave us Amazon, Google and 2020s Microsoft. The major fault I see here is that people didn't forsee that the default GPL should have had AGPL's clauses.