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Re:Large Corporations Aren’t Going to Save the Real Linux Co... by jmclnx on Sunday November 08, 2020 @02:41PM (#25028317)
Yes I agree with this, and in reality nothing really stopping Companies from abusing the GPL, notice how almost all corporations avoid GPLv3 like the plague.

(edit, I meant easy to abuse GPL2, but GPL3 ias hard to abuse)

Personality I believe the final nail was the "coup" at the FSF with RMS. He could be a pain at times, but almost all his fears about the future of computing is slowly coming true.

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Re:Large Corporations Aren’t Going to Save the Real Linux Co... by bigbubba on Sunday November 08, 2020 @03:19PM (#25028615)
I'd say GPLv3 avoidance demonstrates respect[fear] of the license, not abuse of it. To abuse it would be to use that software while not respecting the terms of the license.
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Re:Large Corporations Aren’t Going to Save the Real Linux Co... by jmclnx on Sunday November 08, 2020 @03:41PM (#25028800)
I missed pointing out GPL2 is rather easy to abuse, i edited my original post.

Yes, Large Companies is scared of the GPL3 and we are told specifically never use any GPL3 software where I work :)

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Re:Large Corporations Aren’t Going to Save the Real Linux Co... by fxtentacle on Sunday November 08, 2020 @03:25PM (#25028673)
Like CISCO, Gigabyte, D-Link, NETGEAR, AVM, FANTEC, Iliad, ...

https://gpl-violations.org/news/

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Re:Large Corporations Aren’t Going to Save the Real Linux Co... by ghaff on Sunday November 08, 2020 @04:38PM (#25029324)
GPLv2 vs. v3 seems to be more a matter of inertia. Yes, a few have concerns about the TiVo-ization language. But a lot of it is that projects like Linux were already under GPLv2 and Linus wasn't interested in changing--and, absent copyright assignment, doing so would have been at least somewhat controversial and would necessarily rely on legal theories not everyone would have been on board with.
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Re:Large Corporations Aren’t Going to Save the Real Linux Co... by 533474 on Sunday November 08, 2020 @04:19PM (#25029165)
RMS was right and the community is afraid to admit it
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