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Fuzzillogic is offline Fuzzillogic
2013-11-30 , 16:12
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Originally Posted by pichlo View Post
Excuse me? That's the whole point of GPL. To give the author the right to redistribute all improvements you've made to theiir code. That "viral" property of GPL (it contaminates everything it touches) is the main reason why commercial companies avoid GPL like a plague.
Linux kernel is GPL'ed. Companies are not exactly avoiding Linux, are they?

From a consumer standpoint, I think companies who think their business value is entrenched in their source code are the ones you should be wary of. They are the ones which pulls stunts on you like Adobe did with the "Creative Cloud" crap.

I hope Jolla will open up the remaining code. GPL is fine. That does not mean they lose control - Google didn't exactly lost control of Android either.
 

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