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esseph ◴[] No.45170518[source]
A lot of companies were built on this.
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1. shadowgovt ◴[] No.45171819[source]
And all it took was forcing one company to divulge its proprietary closed-source codebase because they screwed up and incorporated copyleft code deep into their core.

Imagine how much progress could be made if a few other companies were forced to crack open their proprietary closed-source codebases...

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2. bobmcnamara ◴[] No.45173243[source]
I think many companies saw that and poopood GPL firmware.
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3. shadowgovt ◴[] No.45175656[source]
They were poopooing that before the OpenWRT case. I don't think there's evidence to suggest that the OpenWRT case made them less willing to use GPL (especially since use of GPL would always have implied they should open-source the firmware derived from it).
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4. bobmcnamara ◴[] No.45192674{3}[source]
Until then, some companies didn't seem to take it too seriously.