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7/13/2025, 10:28:18 AM
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Mozilla doesn't use the GPL and it was taken over by identity politics bullshit. Their license is based on the BSD license.
Android isn't GPL and it has had identity politics bullshit for years.
Rust isn't GPL and it's by far one of the most identity-politics driven projects out there.
Python's license was explicitly BSD-like and incompatible with GPL and it was taken over too.
On the other side GNU could not be taken over and neither could the FSF despite all the pressure they faced.
Your argument hangs upon the idea that corporations infiltrate organizations based on Free Software to control them, but that's a lie. They infiltrate ALL software organizations to control them regardless of their licensing.
*BSD and Haiku haven't been infiltrated because there is zero interest in developing them. They have very small development teams so it's hard for new developers to get in and demand political changes within the organization (and they have tried).
It has absolutely nothing to do with licensing, it's all about the way the organization is set up. The FSF couldn't be taken over either because Stallman and the rest of the board have centralized most of the power on them and they can veto proposals unilaterally.
Go take a look at GitHub: the vast majority of software being published nowadays is not GPL-licensed and yet most of it has CoC and other politics-driven garbage baked in. Your argument doesn't hold up once you actually stop and look around.
Mozilla doesn't use the GPL and it was taken over by identity politics bullshit. Their license is based on the BSD license.
Android isn't GPL and it has had identity politics bullshit for years.
Rust isn't GPL and it's by far one of the most identity-politics driven projects out there.
Python's license was explicitly BSD-like and incompatible with GPL and it was taken over too.
On the other side GNU could not be taken over and neither could the FSF despite all the pressure they faced.
Your argument hangs upon the idea that corporations infiltrate organizations based on Free Software to control them, but that's a lie. They infiltrate ALL software organizations to control them regardless of their licensing.
*BSD and Haiku haven't been infiltrated because there is zero interest in developing them. They have very small development teams so it's hard for new developers to get in and demand political changes within the organization (and they have tried).
It has absolutely nothing to do with licensing, it's all about the way the organization is set up. The FSF couldn't be taken over either because Stallman and the rest of the board have centralized most of the power on them and they can veto proposals unilaterally.
Go take a look at GitHub: the vast majority of software being published nowadays is not GPL-licensed and yet most of it has CoC and other politics-driven garbage baked in. Your argument doesn't hold up once you actually stop and look around.
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