Two words:
Two words:
Posted Jun 24, 2023 12:41 UTC (Sat) by khim (subscriber, #9252)In reply to: Two words: by Subsentient
Parent article: Kuhn: A Comprehensive Analysis of the GPL Issues With the Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Business Model
> It needs to happen. Punish them for doing this to free software.
I actually hope that this will happen. And support it not with two but with three hands.
> It's time to stop letting GPL violations slide. It's time to enforce the GPL.Yup. It would kill GNU/Linux, more or less. Industry already have all ingredients needed to create replacement. They are just less popular than GNU ones. But if GPL would be banned… I don't think it'll take too much time to patch over the problem.
The only question is if they would stick with Linux after Linus reassurances that GPL-as-excercised-by-Linux is not to be interpreted like that or if they would go with some other kernel. Fuchsia? seL4? We'll see, I guess, there are many options, actually.
GNU was pretty advanced thing for it's time. But I think it's time for it to go. And the best, fast and guaranteed way to achieve that is to sure RedHat.