Not necessarily. WebOS is/was closer to a Linux/GPL distribution than any other smartphone and look what happened to them.
>You can put BSD software in the AppStore, which is nice short term,
It's also nice long-term as the code maintainers don't have to make decisions based on the risk of getting sued, as they would with GPL-based code.
>but long-term that's helping platform that is a golden cage.
Golden cage? How do you figure?
Not necessarily. WebOS is/was closer to a Linux/GPL distribution than any other smartphone and look what happened to them.
>You can put BSD software in the AppStore, which is nice short term,
It's also nice long-term as the code maintainers don't have to make decisions based on the risk of getting sued, as they would with GPL-based code.
>but long-term that's helping platform that is a golden cage.
Golden cage? How do you figure?