Kevin Karhan :verified:<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@geerlingguy" class="u-url mention">@<span>geerlingguy</span></a></span> *nodds in agreement*</p><p>Were the <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/GPLv3" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>GPLv3</span></a> not ideological garbage but actually comitted to <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/FLOSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>FLOSS</span></a> remaining <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/public" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>public</span></a>, it would&#39;ve chosen <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/PublicAccessibilit" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>PublicAccessibilit</span></a> to code as priority over illegally demanding surrender of all <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Patents" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Patents</span></a> and <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/IP" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>IP</span></a>. </p><p>In fact, <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/grsecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>grsecurity</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/paywalling" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>paywalling</span></a> the code was the first warning shot, and when that went through, others like <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Elastic" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Elastic</span></a> and <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/MongoDB" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>MongoDB</span></a> and now <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/RedHat" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>RedHat</span></a> saw that they could get away with <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/paywalls" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>paywalls</span></a> on <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/FLOSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>FLOSS</span></a>... </p><p>It&#39;s sickening.</p>