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With great self-awareness WinRAR releases official $150 merch: 'What better way to support the software you’ve NEVER paid for than by buying a WinRAR bag?' (www.pcgamer.com)

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 days ago (8 children)

Libre software selling whatever they can is good for maintaining development.

If the Linux kernel ever changed to AGPLv3 I would for sure buy one GNU/Linux stable release each year to make up for corporations that would ban Linux from their network due to AGPL3 legal obligations.

[–] rtxn 8 points 6 days ago (1 children)

corporations that would ban Linux from their network

You can't change the license retroactively. Corporations would likely hard-fork the kernel at the last GPL2 commit and move it to a restricted but compliant access model like Red Hat did.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

You can change the license moving forward though it takes a tremendous amount of effort.

Only rich companies have dedicated full time kernel developers. The vast majority literally take full advantage of the fact that the kernel is free (gratis). And any changes they make to the GPL2 kernel is still subject to open source disclosure.

I believe Torvalds has publicly stated that he wouldn't support a move to GPL3, let alone AGPL.

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