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See also, FreeBSD: Plenty of commercial offerings around it, no source for most of them, because the license doesn't require it. For example, there's no source for the Playstation kernels/userlands released by Sony. They only upstream some bug fixes that would be too onerous to keep in their private fork.


> They only upstream some bug fixes that would be too onerous to keep in their private fork.

Are you arguing that more good things would go upstream if it were licensed non-permissive or are you giving an example were it works well enough?


They're privatizing their profits and socializing their losses.

It's not healthy.




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