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Article: We need more of Richard Stallman, not less (ploum.net)

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I want to start a discussion of MIT vs GPL and see what you all think

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

The issue is not only one of funding, but also of publicity - GPL code is great, but not profitable. For widespread adoption of a software, it needs to get enough publicity. A very large number of people will never even have heard of any of the most used GPL-licensed pieces of software floating around.

Without publicity, projects get less attention, fewer developers, users, revenue, etc.