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Cake day: June 9th, 2023

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  • Honestly, I wish our governments would pump money and resources into open source operating systems

    They do. The US NSA being of note with SE Linux.

    It doesn’t mean the Linux developers have to allow them to break the license agreement

    Yes. Completely agree. The problem is, from my reading, is that Nvidia violated GPL by calling GPL functions as opposed to code stealing. The problem with GPL is that it forces everything to be GPL or you’re in violation of the license. Link a GPL library, your code now has to be GPL. Called a GPL function, congratulations, your code has to be GPL. This critical fault in GPL has been brought up time and time again. Thankfully this issue is infrequently enforced. But that just means it becomes a ticking time bomb.

    Let me be clear, I’m not defending Nvidia’s actions. Just that in the blame game, GNU’s toxic attitude should be called out