Go to jail, prudency

Posted May 21, 2018 8:59 UTC (Mon) by oldtomas (guest, #72579)
In reply to: The Software Freedom Conservancy on Tesla's GPL compliance by rahulsundaram
Parent article: The Software Freedom Conservancy on Tesla's GPL compliance

> [...] following the Microsoft example you are citing is hardly prudent.

While I do agree with you, and commend Conservancy's careful approach (and the more general attitude in most of the community), it seems important to remind people that the "proprietary" world is far more aggressive.

Especially considering the massive anti-GPL FUD we are witnessing these days: having spent myself a couple of years in the corporate world, I had my boss tell me to not touch GPL software ("every other 'open source' is OK"). When I asked, he hand-waved something about "liabilities", while at the same time having no qualms with Microsoft, Oracle, Adobe, Apple and all the other usual suspects. And every time the BSA announced itself... it was party time!