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Re:Qt and Open Source by yjftsjthsd-h on Thursday April 09, 2020 @05:44PM (#22827520)
> You won't get any support of the "big money" unless the library is at least LGPL so it can be used in closed source applications. GPL is primarily for the idealists, not for business.

Right, of course; hence the failure of Linux and the dominance of the BSD family. /s

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Re:Qt and Open Source by badsectoracula on Thursday April 09, 2020 @06:20PM (#22827806)
Haven't you heard? Sony's Playstation and Nintendo's Switch use FreeBSD, which somehow is good - especially for the consumers buying those products.
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Re:Qt and Open Source by yjftsjthsd-h on Friday April 10, 2020 @02:05PM (#22835657)
I wouldn't say that game consoles use FreeBSD so much as that they use chunks of code from BSD; I mean, the Switch is apparently using a microkernel, so I doubt that it's all that close.

But yes, using permissively-licensed components absolutely is* a good thing, including for the users, who get higher-quality software with less dev time and lower cost of development. Obviously I'd prefer that it was all GPLv3, but given that the alternative in practice is probably fully-proprietary software from scratch, I think BSD is better than nothing.

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