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Re:VMware joins Linux Foundation: what about the GPL? by mi100hael on Wednesday March 08, 2017 @02:25PM (#13822882)
> I gotta say that I think this is just not a big deal for most people.

I'm assuming by "people" you mean pirates like VMWare or mindless end users like yourself, since it's a huge deal for developers. When I make the conscious decision to license my work for others to use under the GPL instead of something completely permissive like MIT, I clearly don't want some commercial enterprise ripping off my work and using it to line their own pockets without even contributing back their modifications.

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Re:VMware joins Linux Foundation: what about the GPL? by bykovich on Wednesday March 08, 2017 @03:03PM (#13823250)
I agree that that is irksome. That being said, we're all victimized by commercial enterprises constantly -- it's difficult to see /this/ particular violation as uniquely worthy of outrage (although I confess that this is not a particularly good argument that FOSS violations are uniquely /un/worthy of outrage).
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