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Re:Microsoft Becomes Sponsor of Open Source Initiative by Karunamon on Wednesday September 27, 2017 @11:32AM (#15348807)
It's an important distinction IMO. Roughly 99% of the GPL is irrelevant to the end user if they don't have all of the knowledge, desire, and time to crack open the code and modify it.
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Re:Microsoft Becomes Sponsor of Open Source Initiative by digi_owl on Wednesday September 27, 2017 @12:21PM (#15349338)
Even if they themselves do not, they have the possibility of finding someone that does.
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Re:Microsoft Becomes Sponsor of Open Source Initiative by Karunamon on Wednesday September 27, 2017 @12:25PM (#15349396)
And that's the remaining 1% :)
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