Re:Google found guilty of infringing Sonos patents
by jcims on Monday August 23, 2021 @04:56AM
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The same thing could be said for software licensing, couldn’t it?
Re:Google found guilty of infringing Sonos patents
by GuB-42 on Monday August 23, 2021 @06:08AM
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No GPL without software licensing. And no Linux without GPL.
By requiring the source to be available with the software, licenses drove the free software movement.
Re:Google found guilty of infringing Sonos patents
by pydry on Monday August 23, 2021 @07:18AM
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GPL also wouldnt be needed without software licensing.
No reason Linux couldnt exist. All software would effectively be FOSS by default.
Re:Google found guilty of infringing Sonos patents
by GuB-42 on Monday August 23, 2021 @09:54AM
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Free but not open source.
GPL is here to make sure the source code doesn't stay secret, and it is an essential part of the Linux development process, the driver model in particular. In fact, I don't see how a community driven, widely supported, monolithic kernel could be made without a copyleft license.
Linux without GPL wouldn't be Linux, and out of the free OSes (BSD, GNU/HURD, Haiku, Minix, ...), Linux is the most successful.
Their function was always to create more property to capitalize. I'm not sure you could argue that this wasnt the intended effect. The idea that they ever spurred innovation was the "big lie".
There have been historical periods of explosive innovation that coincided with lax or no enforcement of intellectual property rules but never, as far as im aware, the reverse.