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Re:Uutils: an attempt at writing cross-platform CLI utilitie... by josephcsible on Monday December 06, 2021 @08:30AM (#29459466)
> The proprietary company's proprietary product was always going to be proprietary.

The point of copyleft is to make this not true. Most companies don't have the resources to reimplement Linux from scratch, so they won't be allowed to make their drivers/kernel modifications proprietary.

Re:Uutils: an attempt at writing cross-platform CLI utilitie... by torstenvl on Monday December 06, 2021 @06:45PM (#29467321)
I know that's the theory, but I don't see that happening in practice. See, e.g., TiVo, Android, NVIDIA drivers...