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Re:Amazon’s Chips Threaten Intel by Someone on Tuesday December 11, 2018 @03:40AM (#18653974)
Their lawyers likely strongly advised against bundling GPLv3 software with their OS because there is a non-zero risk that some judge, somewhere, some day, will claim that requires them to release the source of all their software under GPLv3.

I think that, if GPLv3 ever gets sufficiently tested in courts all around the world (which is highly unlikely) that stance could change.

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Re:Amazon’s Chips Threaten Intel by jononor on Tuesday December 11, 2018 @04:22AM (#18654096)
Why would GPLv3 be substantially different risk than GPLv2?
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Re:Amazon’s Chips Threaten Intel by rbanffy on Tuesday December 11, 2018 @04:38AM (#18654154)
GPLv3 has anti-TiVoization and patent protection built in.
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Re:Amazon’s Chips Threaten Intel by jononor on Tuesday December 11, 2018 @05:14AM (#18654299)
Yes, but that doesn't make it more likely that anyone would have to open source their apps or OS?
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Re:Amazon’s Chips Threaten Intel by rbanffy on Wednesday December 12, 2018 @08:23AM (#18663623)
No, but those fears weren't rational to begin with.
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