Free Software is an abject failure. It may sound like a good concept on its face—especially with the kind of language often used to describe the movement and its opponents—but, when put under scrutiny, the institutions and practices that make up the Free Software movement fundamentally fail at their stated goals and harm the software ecosystem as a result.
Free Software is about the four freedoms for users. The gist of the article is that GPL is complicated and that permissive licenses are better suited for the task. But we had so many failures with permissive projects and pre patched GPL licenses:
Android
Chromium
MacOS GNU utils distribution
Linux kernel locked away in spying smart TVs
VSCode
Where are failure examples with strong copyleft? Bambu Labs is going to get kicked in the teeth because of AGPL.
Free Software is about the four freedoms for users. The gist of the article is that GPL is complicated and that permissive licenses are better suited for the task. But we had so many failures with permissive projects and pre patched GPL licenses:
Where are failure examples with strong copyleft? Bambu Labs is going to get kicked in the teeth because of AGPL.
sent from my GNU Guix laptop