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Re:Linux Journal Ceases Publication: An Awkward Goodbye by pjmlp on Thursday August 08, 2019 @07:27AM (#20643487)
The Linux kernel is the only GPL piece still used on Android, and who knows for how long, given how little userspace is actually aware of it.
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Re:Linux Journal Ceases Publication: An Awkward Goodbye by djsumdog on Thursday August 08, 2019 @11:36AM (#20645501)
Why else would Google be building Fuchsia? Apple has been removing all GPL apps slowly from their platform. From a RMS perspective, the FOSS community is worse than it was in the 90s. There is little end-user, self-hostable FOSS stuff out there. It's all middleware, released by the giants, to integrate with their big social media system.

I wrote about this a few years back:

https://penguindreams.org/blog/the-philosophy-of-open-source...

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Re:Linux Journal Ceases Publication: An Awkward Goodbye by UncleMeat on Thursday August 08, 2019 @12:52PM (#20646176)
Isn't this what gpl advocates want? Or did they expect every tech company to open source their entire stack?
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Re:Linux Journal Ceases Publication: An Awkward Goodbye by hdfbdtbcdg on Friday August 09, 2019 @12:31AM (#20651355)
No they want fully free OS's with free applications. That doesn't have to come from big corps.
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Re:Linux Journal Ceases Publication: An Awkward Goodbye by pjmlp on Thursday August 08, 2019 @01:29PM (#20646541)
On the other hand, MIT/Apache/BSD advocates will have a bright future ahead of them.
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