This is what GPLv3 was designed to protect us from [LWN.net]

This is what GPLv3 was designed to protect us from

Posted Aug 22, 2012 8:28 UTC (Wed) by ortalo (subscriber, #4654)
In reply to: This is what GPLv3 was designed to protect us from by mikapfl
Parent article: GENIVI: moving an industry to open source

Agreed. This once again exhibits excessive (IMO) greed from manufacturers trying to gather hidden costs from their victims. [1]

Another problem is that such greed prevents everyone from actually progressing in clear system designs (e.g. bug versus feature, critical versus non-critical function, etc.) that would help improve the overall system.

[1] I know this vocabulary may sound strong from a manufacturer perspective. However, let's say it clearly: things like paying for software bug corrections (in an embedded system or any system) or even for something as basic as a computer-assisted automatic diagnostic has resemblance with extortion. (No, they do not cost anything to produce.)

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