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by m0llusk 1439 days ago
Public Domain is a great way of releasing intellectual property for everyone to use.

Trying to use GPL software makes you a target with angry techies constantly accusing you of not publishing complete diffs of changes needed to ship features. GPL fanatics are the most to blame for putting negative pressure on GPL. That is why Macs have wget instead of curl. GPL does not necessarily mean poison, but that is what it has become.

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"That is why Macs have wget instead of curl." I got curious and decided to look that up. Did you mean to say "curl instead of wget"? "GPL does not necessarily mean poison, but that is what it has become." don't remember where i heard it first, but "with each iteration, GPL becomes less and less about freedom".