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Re:Minix 3.3.0 by pjmlp on Tuesday September 16, 2014 @11:30AM (#8324970)
> Not being GPL'd meant that a whole generation of hackers followed Linus Torvalds rather than buying a bunch of books from Prentice Hall.

And as a joke of destiny, most of the open source projects with company funding stay away from GPL or offer dual licensing.

> And so now we have 70's era tech instead of 90's.

It worse than that, it is actually late 60's.

If it were 70's at least we could aspire to have the Xerox PARC environments.

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Re:Minix 3.3.0 by lmm on Tuesday September 16, 2014 @11:43AM (#8325028)
> And as a joke of destiny, most of the open source projects with company funding stay away from GPL or offer dual licensing.

They use GPL or something more liberal (BSD), not less. There's no contradiction.

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Re:Minix 3.3.0 by pjmlp on Tuesday September 16, 2014 @01:11PM (#8325553)
I didn't said it was a contradiction.

Just that the GPL dream that spread into the mainstream thanks to Linux becoming GNU's kernel, now is less so thanks to more liberal licenses.

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