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Re:The culture war at the heart of open source by simonh on Wednesday March 27, 2019 @08:28AM (#19500165)
"Used in corporate environments" and "Shipped" are two completely different thing. You will find GPL software all over the place in the enterprise because there is no risk.

You won't often see GPL software in shipped commercial products, because when you ship stuff you might need to include proprietary components you don't want to have to open up. It still does happen from time to time though.

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Re:The culture war at the heart of open source by int_19h on Wednesday March 27, 2019 @04:05PM (#19505413)
I have personally worked on a GPL component that's a crucial part of a shipped Microsoft product, so I'm well aware that it happens. But compared to non-copyleft licenses, it's a drop in the bucket, even with the industry-wide embrace of Linux. And if Linux couldn't blaze that path for other stuff, I'm not sure what can.
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