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by erikbye 3338 days ago
Open source and free software is thriving. Always have. Look around you. Look at what runs the internet you use. Look at the number of projects and the number of contributors.
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Free software has always thrived all the way back to magazine listenings, PD and several variations of shareware, postware, beerware, whateverwere.

Adoption of business friendly licenses in detriment of GPL, means we will get back to those days.

A business friendly license (like BSD) usually results in exactly what Apple has done. Take whatever they want, close it off, and hardly contribute back upstream.