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Re:You use more open source software than you think by goodpoint on Wednesday June 09, 2021 @08:24PM (#27455226)
Companies love unpaid labor with no strings attached. Being unable to proprietarize FOSS makes them unhappy.

It's not surprising that they invested a lot into spreading FUD around GPL and spreading the idea that weak licenses are "practical" while labeling GPL as "ideological".

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Re:You use more open source software than you think by parafactual on Wednesday June 09, 2021 @10:34PM (#27456080)
I mean, of course companies don't like copyleft. It was individual developers that I found confusing.
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