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Re:Canonical, Ubuntu, and Why I Seem so Upset About Them All... by malka on Friday February 19, 2016 @04:17AM (#11132480)
The purpose of GPL is not to prevent people from earning money. It is so that you can always modify your software yourself, or that you can seek a better alternative because the standards are open.
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Re:Canonical, Ubuntu, and Why I Seem so Upset About Them All... by LeonidasXIV on Friday February 19, 2016 @11:56AM (#11134658)
> you can seek a better alternative because the standards are open.

That's not really true, GPL says nothing about standards, you can create your own proprietary standard with your code covered under GPL. Funnily enough you can have GPL software and create a minefield of confusion like Oracle does with the OpenJDK which is GPL.

I fully agree on the first point though. Sadly many people forget that.

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