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Re:The KDE Free Qt Foundation: 25 Years of Celebration by tguvot on Thursday June 29, 2023 @05:04PM (#36526671)
i see an oldtimer here :)

yea.. well.. gpl/etc fight was lost. On the upside, we can take a look at wider benefit to society at whole. Through usage of gpl software, even in non-compliant way, were created a whole lot of companies (and jobs) and products that are widely used. Without it we might have had 1% of current selection and it would have been based on vxworks and totally locked down.

you win some, you loose some

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Re:The KDE Free Qt Foundation: 25 Years of Celebration by tguvot on Thursday June 29, 2023 @07:13PM (#36528118)
no, i don't assume that we would have been using dead/dated tech. There probably would have been new tech, but much less of it. Open source lowered threshold for developing new solutions, both boxed and *aaS. I worked in a bunch of startups, mostly in network and security areas. Without open source most of them wouldn't have been possible or not viable
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Re:The KDE Free Qt Foundation: 25 Years of Celebration by asdlfkjasdlfjkh on Friday June 30, 2023 @08:18AM (#36533554)
> we can take a look at wider benefit to society at whole.

my point is that no, we didn't.

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