

To people who will pay whatever they think a thing is worth, a free OS is worthless


To people who will pay whatever they think a thing is worth, a free OS is worthless


Sorry I don’t get it. It just felt like a reasonable question to me


This is getting downvoted but honestly, “why?” This is a good question. Too few people understand why GPL licensing is important.
A working “Linux” fork with a “do whatever you want we don’t care” license means that people can just take the code without ever attributing credit or contributing back. They can make their own proprietary kernels from this and dispense from the free and open source part. They would also be free to commercialize the software without restrictions and impunity. As it stands GPL3 in particular is restrictive enough to be considered “bad for business” but it’s also the only license that actually protects free software in court
A lambo obviously
Why waste time when few words do trick?

Aw man, they own a home too? 😅
Apparently the packaging requirements for F-Droid are more challenging than just “must be open source” and aren’t for everybody.
https://f-droid.org/en/docs/Inclusion_Policy/
The “no Google Play services” alone are a non starter for many apps. My preferred messenger, Signal, is plenty open source and runs its own notification daemon, but cannot be found on F-Droid. I have to get it via Obtainium instead.