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This is why Linux will always struggle to be mainstream. They can't shake the grip of GPL. Forcing open source at gun point just alienates people.
Thank you for all the replies. Really should me how boned Linux is. And that alot of you have absolutely no idea how the GPL works. If you call a GPL function, the calling code MUST be GPL too.
Afaik, you only need to take GPL into consideration if you distribute GPL software. So if you use the os glibc, you can call into it without having to disclose your source code.
What an astoundingly tone deaf and ignorant take to share in a community dedicated to Linux. The grip of GPL. Good grief.
Hey let a man dream of a Linux freed from the exclusionary ideology of GNU. And if not, well you guys are more than welcome to hole up in your "No closed sourced allowed fort." I and others will just move to the equally capable BSD Unixs
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Ok, you do that. The rest of us will be here on lemmy which is licensed under copyleft
Good idea, lets give even more leeway to giant corporations and allow them to break standards, surely this will not set up a dangerous precedent.
It alienates nvidia. Are any other mega-corps being difficult enough to cause problems with linux?
As for its struggle to become mainstream (I assume you refer to desktop), I'd credit that to Linux not being commercial. And hence not having a marketing department. As soon as you DO market it, it takes off like a rocket. (Android, ChromeOS, SteamDeck)
That's the point. They don't want to shake the grip of GPL. Nor should they, linux is already mainstream, being the most used kernel in the world.