The kernel community confronts GPL enforcement
The kernel community confronts GPL enforcement
Posted Sep 1, 2016 16:07 UTC (Thu) by pizza (subscriber, #46)In reply to: The kernel community confronts GPL enforcement by drag
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> Are you going to want to devote the next 3 months of your life to improving vendor's A code and making their product more useful and friendlier to end users all the while A is using your free assistance to drive B out of business?
You just described how a substantial (if not an overwhelming majority) of Linux's long tail of hardware support came to exist.
> Why would you want to have a relationship with somebody when the only way you can get them to even talk to you is by threatening lawsuits?
You forget that there's already a relationship -- I already own their hardware, they already have my money.
I merely seek to have the same freedoms to utilize and modify Linux as the vendor; ie the freedoms supposedly guaranteed by the GPL.