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    Comment #6190321

    > You can't write a kernel in Go because it has a mandatory runtime system and garbage collection. Could you please provide a link or two on that, or give some explanation on why t…

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    Comment #6142505

    Thank you! I really think the fact that Sweden is 30 time smaller than the US is a significant aspect of the problem, which ought to be highlighted a bit more when doing a comparis…

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    Comment #6093882

    GP wording was perhaps a bit awkward, but I don't think he meant that modifications had to be released unilaterally: He just indicated the difference between gplv2 and v3 in the si…

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    Comment #6093850

    > some rich people did to get richer As I said, it all comes from scarcity. Things that are abundant are monetary worthless, and if everything is free, then people don't need to ma…

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    Comment #6093814

    Because that's the legal side of this. You can compile and run GPL software on your computer without agreeing to the licensing terms, but you may not do it. It is very unlikely tha…

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    Comment #6090600

    Property is an inherent human thing. Likewise, people want to be remunerated for their work. Hence copyright. If scarcity was non existent, then we wouldn't have that problem... Ac…

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    Comment #6090479

    Actually, you have to accept the license as a user to be able to use it. However, you don't give up your right to keep any change for yourself if you don't distribute it in a diffe…

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    Comment #6090433

    What chalst probably meant is that the fact that the code was orginally GPL doesn't make any illegal obtention of the code legal. If you keep code you wrote on your computer with a…