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0 pointsteddyh12y ago0 comments

Well, strictly speaking, neither one of us can be sure what would happen. It’s just what I think would happen. Is it “FUD” if I still really believe it? I don’t know.

And speaking of closing; just look at Android with its complete anti-GPL, purged system. Only Linux remains there.

Of course, I (or you) can’t prove anything either way, but I have the feeling of Google, Apple, and the rest of the permissive license promulgators all the time going “Relax, it’s fine now, the war is over, you can all go home! You won!” And if we turn our backs, if we relax in our supposed victory, we will slowly find that all the contributors to these better (completely coincidentally non-GPL) projects are mostly employees of these same companies, and they all have CLAs. And one fine day they will turn off the freedom and turn it all proprietary. We then cannot hope of competing with the current project owners, since they have all the experience and infrastructure.

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asdasf12y ago

>Well, strictly speaking, neither one of us can be sure what would happen

We could certainly look at the hundreds of projects setting precedent to determine that you are almost certainly wrong.

>Is it “FUD” if I still really believe it?

Yes. If you are posting something to create fear, uncertainty and doubt, then it is FUD. Even if you are sincerely crazy, it doesn't make your FUD not be FUD.

>but I have the feeling of Google, Apple, and the rest of the permissive license promulgators

Google are not "permissive license promulgators". And you wouldn't be having this conversation if not for actually free software, like freebsd, apache, bind, etc. The people who made the internet are the "permissive license promulgators". Show some fucking respect.

>And one fine day they will turn off the freedom and turn it all proprietary

And see a therapist. You are paranoid and delusional.

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