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    6 days ago

    It used to be true. Stallman didn’t anticipate the GPL hate coming from big corporates like cloud providers. Literally the major reason why Alpine and Android are the way they are.

    • davel [he/him]@lemmy.ml
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      6 days ago

      That’s at least partially true, perhaps even predominantly, but there’s also the desire to have very lean distributions for containterization, and GNU is comparatively “bloated,” for lack of a better term.