The culture war at the heart of open source

Re:The culture war at the heart of open source by Haga on Wednesday March 27, 2019 @04:21PM (#19505600)

The GPL nevee had much lo e for those who where stuck in jobs to support their family's with reliable income. The day everyone could earn a living doing os work, most software companies would cease to be.

Yet they hide behind a preacher who never stepped into the misery mill himself. You are on the soap box against borders while we mortals must play papers please.

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Re:The culture war at the heart of open source by pjmlp on Wednesday March 27, 2019 @05:30PM (#19506258)

Easy, want to use the work of others for free? Receive the same as you are willing to give others.

Feel like earning money? Then pay back some of the dues, so that upstream can stay in business.

That preacher is the reason many anti-GPL folks can enjoy Linux, GCC and a comfortable POSIX like userland.

I wonder why they aren't all making FreeBSD a huge commercial success if GPL is so evil then.

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