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		goodpoint 6 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Open source maintainers underpaid, swamped by secu... This is plain false. Companies contribute massively to the Linux kernel. GPL worked very well for it even if, unfortunately, it's not GPL-3

Jweb_Guru 5 days ago [–]

Yeah companies notoriously have to contribute back to the Linux kernel all the time, it is a massive success story for copyleft.

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