On Wednesday, 8 November 2017 at 06:27:15 UTC, Patrick Schluter
wrote:
On Wednesday, 8 November 2017 at 01:13:00 UTC, codephantom
wrote:
On Wednesday, 8 November 2017 at 00:09:51 UTC, Ola Fosheim
Grøstad wrote:
[...]
Redhat have demonstrated that it can be done. GPL is not the
obstacle. The obstacle is the desire to control/dominate a
market. There, GPL will do you harm, because you are required
to release your source code changes back to the community -
and hence your competitors.
[...]
And it didn't preclude Google to dominate the smartphone
market. Android kernel IS Linux kernel.
The Android kernel on Android is an heavily customized fork of
Linux and probably the only GPL component left on the AOSP source
tree, now that GCC has been replaced by clang, just like Apple
did on their SDKs.
Fuchsia has zero GPL components on it.
