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Re:John Deere has turned itself into a poster-child for the ... by adrianN on Sunday April 23, 2017 @02:38AM (#14176878)
Free software comes with the "string" that you grant the same rights to your users that you enjoyed. That's not so terrible, it's common courtesy.
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Re:John Deere has turned itself into a poster-child for the ... by qb45 on Sunday April 23, 2017 @03:43AM (#14177025)
Sure, but this Free Software of yours is less free than say, FreeBSD, which also gives Cisco the freedom to extract money from 2nd hand sales of their equipment ;)
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Re:John Deere has turned itself into a poster-child for the ... by Clownshoesms on Sunday April 23, 2017 @04:31AM (#14177161)
Is the net gain of a BSD license better than if it didn't exist, considering public companies use it for profit and don't contribute back? Absolutely, but same with LGPL. Actuaĺly I just wanted to argue it.
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Re:John Deere has turned itself into a poster-child for the ... by dec0dedab0de on Sunday April 23, 2017 @03:40AM (#14177020)
you're thinking of copy left, which is a type of free software, but not the only type. Atleast according to the FSF definitions.
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Re:John Deere has turned itself into a poster-child for the ... by adrianN on Sunday April 23, 2017 @03:43AM (#14177027)
The other kinds of free software have even fewer strings, so I didn't mention them.
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