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MilitantVeganThe alternatives to the GNU tools are largely permissively licensed, yeah? What could possibly go wrong with that…
…People who wanted to donate their software to the public with no strings attached could see an uptick in the number of users?
The number of users being those who would rather leverage the software for free, and then resell a walled garden version with proprietary extensions.
woelkchenIf the proprietary extensions don’t add significant value, nobody would buy it in the first place.
That’s the beautiful thing about gifting software with permissive licenses (when one wants to): it’s a gift and anyone can do whatever they want with it for free.
People making those comments don’t realize that much of the desktop Linux stack is MIT/BSD licensed anyway. It’s also not like those “permissive licenses bad” people would delete all such licensed software from their system because the result would be unusable.