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Linus opinion on GPL enforcement is clear: https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/ksummit-discuss/...

>Let's be clear about this: lawsuits destroy. They don't "protect". Lawsuits destroy community. They destroy trust. They would destroy all the goodwill we've built up over the years by being nice.

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Opinions can change. We should all know by now that appeasement only works as long as the other party is acting in good faith and harsher solutions exist for a reason.

I agree.

It's also worth noting that, in 2016 when Linus shared this view, NVIDIA's market cap was 60B. It's now 1200B: https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/NVDA/nvidia/market...

At some point, when you have a trillion dollar entity acting in bad faith for that long, maybe your only option left (besides giving them the finger) is to pursue them in courts.

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