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by sbuk 437 days ago
It seems to me that it has actually been harmful to F/LOSS in the longer term. Where before, there were companies that were contributing to and using F/LOSS, GPLv3 put a stop to that virtually overnight. Now we see comments like "$MEGACORP should stop leaching" or "$MEGACORP should sponsor/ contribute more" - which of course they did, with time and people before the GPLv3 was released.