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You do not understand what is happening.

Most people use this software within the license terms - most importantly they distribute it with an offer to provide the source, and provide the source if asked to.

Who is the everyone the FSF could sue? Do you know of anyone else distributing a non open source derivative of any of this software?

The whole point of the GPL is to prevent people from closing open source software. If they do not enforce, they may as well just give up and put their software in the public domain.

How exactly is buying from MS going to help them? MS has (or any proprietary supplier) much stricter license terms, and is much more aggressive about enforcing them.

I suspect you do not understand the GPL. Read the explanations on the FSF site.



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