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this post was submitted on 30 Aug 2026
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The GPL gives you the right to access and modify the source code of software you use. A lack of copyrights does not mean that the creators have to share the source code with you. In fact, it means that anyone can take GPL software and turn it into closed source software
Sure but that's mostly irrelevant in practice now. Gpl was notoriously unenforced so this aspect of "getting source code" almost never yielded to much in practice. FSF did a great job with limited resources it has but as code copyright is basically gone now and reverse engineering is so accessible we can actually empower real free software that is fully transparent and verifiable. If you imply that somehow we'll start regressing existing tools to proprietary software I don't see that at all.
@fruitcantfly @drmoose Just. Wrong. Clearly 'Linux boosted' is a worthless accolade.
What is "Just. Wrong"? And what does the label "Linux boosted" have to do with this?