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[–] t3rmit3@beehaw.org 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This doesn't reflect how that works right now, though, nor how AGPL would affect most corporations.

You listed 2 companies (Cisco and Google) that maintain their own forked Linux versions (IOS and Android). Neither of those OSes are server OSes already. They're router and mobile phone OSes.

The other hundreds of thousands of companies don't even touch the kernel, and would not be affected. It would not change the landscape at all to move it to AGPL.

[–] galileopie@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago

I can speak on Cisco's system or software, because I have always been suspicious of Cisco due to how massive they are, no company gets like that without dirty dealing underneath.

I don't think Google forks Linux, they use parts of the kernel, and there's also OpenBSD security code in Android as well.

While Google is evil and I will rejoice at the death of Google, I hope they are successful in their new OS to fully replace Android. I think it's called Fusia. Software development is always better then GPL code is stripped out and replaced.