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Comment by jenadine

2 months ago

> will 100% avoid GPL software like the plague.

Not true. Many companies uses Linux for example.

They will just avoid using GPL software in ways that would impact their own intellectual property (linking a GPL library to their proprietary software). Sometimes they will even use it with dubious "workaround" such as saying "we use a deamon with IPC so that's ok"

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quietbritishjim  2 months ago

> > will 100% avoid GPL software like the plague.

> Not true. Many companies uses Linux for example.

I thought it was clear, given that this is a discussion about an open source library, that they were talking about GPL libraries. The way that standalone GPL software is used in companies is qualitatively quite different.