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Re:Lack of leadership in open source results in source-avail... by Drdrdrq on Saturday June 01, 2019 @04:39PM (#20071555)
This is exactly it. GPL worked in the past, but if we take a look at Android (which is based on Linux) we can see that it failed to protect users' freedoms completely.
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Re:Lack of leadership in open source results in source-avail... by AnaniasAnanas on Saturday June 01, 2019 @06:22PM (#20072062)
Something that GPLv3 would have prevented.
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Re:Lack of leadership in open source results in source-avail... by klipt on Saturday June 01, 2019 @10:16PM (#20073041)
Then Android would probably have just based off BSD like iOS did.
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