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Good riddance


Really? I would prefer more things were GPLv3/AGPLv3. Open source today is just a bunch of middleware, but few end products. People today use open source software to build closed source solutions. It's a far cry from what a lot of us envisioned back in the 90s. I wrote about this before:

https://penguindreams.org/blog/the-philosophy-of-open-source...




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