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Its everyones freedom to build a parallel open-source eco-system, that cooperations can not legally leech on.


That wouldn't be Open Source. There is an alternative movement called "Fair Source" though:

https://fair.io/


Why the source is open- you can get all the ideas and copy it one way just like open source. Its differs from other "One-way-street-source" only by ownership of the public rights.


See the Open Source Definition, it mentions "No Discrimination Against Persons or Groups".

https://opensource.org/osd/


They’ll need to start from a new code base that isn’t GPL, then.




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