npub1x4m9xcgqxcrgum87kepqt82yyqta828hz6muny8pxf3p6yzfh2mqygtvht (npub1x4m…tvht) to quote: For the last 30 years, businesses and proponents of Open Source, including Linus Torvalds, have been decrying the GPL because of the essential right of "doing business" aka "privatising the common".
That's simply false.
Linus Torvalds quite consciously chose to use the GPL2 for the Linux kernel in early 1992, see:
https://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2016/08/23/linus-torvalds-early-linux-history-gpl-license-money
And in 2016 he was very clear that this had been a crucial choice - two example quote references:
https://www.infoworld.com/article/3112778/linus-torvalds-credits-gpl-with-preventing-linux-fragmentation.html
https://iwf1.com/linus-torvalds-linux-succeeded-thanks-to-gpl-license
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2024-01-08 12:03:08
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