During the Unix Wars, the industry lost about a decade of progress on BSD and SysV, entombed in proprietary forks owned by failing vendors. I don't believe it was a coincidence that a rough GPL kernel built on the GNU tools quickly surpassed the others, because all the work became part of a commons that reliably benefits all its users.
> give you all the freedoms to do as you like with my code
The industry has a bad habit of leaving end users at our mercy. I feel they deserve a place in that sentence, and that's why my donated work only goes to GPL projects.
> give you all the freedoms to do as you like with my code
The industry has a bad habit of leaving end users at our mercy. I feel they deserve a place in that sentence, and that's why my donated work only goes to GPL projects.