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Re:ChakraCore GitHub repository is now open by fapjacks on Wednesday January 13, 2016 @03:05PM (#10897059)
I'm genuinely curious which projects you are thinking of when you mention Apple. Shedding GPLv3 and refusing to (for example) update Bash because they do not want to use anything licensed under GPLv3 is pretty.... I dunno, I'm just curious what projects you're thinking of when you say that. The walls of that garden are pretty high.
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Re:ChakraCore GitHub repository is now open by X-Istence on Wednesday January 13, 2016 @03:20PM (#10897166)
So getting rid of GPLv3 means they can't be doing anything good in open source? Nevermind CUPS, LLVM, Swift, and WebKit just to name a few?

GPL isn't the only license in town, and clearly there are disadvantages to it.

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Re:ChakraCore GitHub repository is now open by fapjacks on Thursday January 14, 2016 @04:16AM (#10900319)
What "disadvantage" are you referring to? The one that forces companies to give back in the same manner that allows them to use the work of others for free? Yeah, that is so shitty.
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Re:ChakraCore GitHub repository is now open by plafl on Friday January 15, 2016 @06:08PM (#10912966)
The problem is that you need to give back everything, even if the GPL code you are using is a tiny part of your product. That's why I prefer LGPL.
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Re:ChakraCore GitHub repository is now open by creshal on Wednesday January 13, 2016 @03:15PM (#10897138)
Or Samba. When given the choice to abide by the GPL and open source their Samba changes, or to drop everything; they did the latter and wrote their own SMB implementation. That was three or four OSX releases ago and it's still buggy as hell. The only one who lost here are Apple's paying customers.
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Re:ChakraCore GitHub repository is now open by tracker1 on Wednesday January 13, 2016 @11:38PM (#10899672)
Have to agree, had a lot of pain when they first switched, their initial release/update was broken/poor to say the least.. the hangs and performance issues aside even.
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Re:ChakraCore GitHub repository is now open by umanwizard on Wednesday January 13, 2016 @03:08PM (#10897088)
Swift comes to mind.
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Re:ChakraCore GitHub repository is now open by fapjacks on Thursday January 14, 2016 @04:21AM (#10900332)
Oh, you mean the language Apple created to make their fucking painful app development process easier?
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Re:ChakraCore GitHub repository is now open by umanwizard on Thursday January 14, 2016 @09:11AM (#10901441)
Chill out. Of course they made it to benefit themselves in some way. They are not a charity.

The point is, they released it as open-source, which is what we are talking about in this thread.

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