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Re:60x speed-up of Linux “perf” by adwn on Thursday September 09, 2021 @10:59AM (#28470420)
> Assuming the GPL did not exist and the author would have made stuff proprietary, would that be better ?

That's a false dichotomy – there are many more open source licenses which wouldn't have led to the problem described in the article.

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Re:60x speed-up of Linux “perf” by simion314 on Thursday September 09, 2021 @11:18AM (#28470635)
But respect the author decision, maybe the "problem" is what the author desired to happen.
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