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   From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On 28 Nov 2025 04:23:22 GMT, Brock McNuggets wrote:   
      
   > On Nov 27, 2025 at 5:23:14 PM MST, "Lawrence D´Oliveiro" wrote   
   > <10gaq1i$1trhb$1@dont-email.me>:   
   >   
   >> On 27 Nov 2025 23:54:22 GMT, Brock McNuggets wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> They are giving their users more capabilities. I have no issue   
   >>> with this.   
   >>   
   >> Capabilities they cannot invent natively to their platform, so they   
   >> have to copy from Linux.   
   >   
   > Why would they reinvent open source?   
      
   Because it would then be something they could own, and profit from.   
      
   Copying and redistributing GPL code, in particular (like Linux), as   
   you may know, means that they must make the source code available to   
   their users. That also includes any modifications they may make to   
   that code.   
      
   You really think that companies who guard their “intellectual   
   property” as jealously as Microsoft and Apple do, would willingly   
   accede to such a requirement, if they had a choice?   
      
   Why do you think both companies copied so much BSD code to begin with,   
   which has no such “copyleft” requirement? But that isn’t enough any   
   more.   
      
   > What percent of macOS / Win users do you think use desktop Linux?   
      
   The question is, what percentage do they feel the need to attract   
   to their platforms, that they have no choice about doing this?   
      
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