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by saurik
4884 days ago
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The reason the GPL happened in the first place was because this happened to Stallman with the original version of Emacs he wrote with his friends. He started personally reimplementing every feature they added under a forcibly-free codebase to guarantee this would never happen to him again. (Additionally, this happened to me; I got totally shafted by assuming people would play fair with a BSD license, and the result was a closed-source commercial competitor with investment funding and a marketing department running rings around me. They really were reliant on my codebase, so temporarily closing source and moving to GPL undid some of the damage, but the consequences persist to today.) |
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