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by wmf 5569 days ago
Developers who use the GPL don't want as many users as possible; they want freedom and users can take it or leave it.
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JoeAltmaier 5569 days ago
...and they have mostly left it in this case. Fine; but lets not pretend open-source GPL projects are significant to the world at large; they are backroom projects with no future.
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jscott1290 5566 days ago
are you kidding me? gcc?
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JoeAltmaier 5566 days ago
I use gcc. Its a constant struggle compared to commercial, supported compilers.
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