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		adwn on Sept 9, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: 60x speed-up of Linux “perf” > Assuming the GPL did not exist and the author would have made stuff proprietary, would that be better ? That's a false dichotomy – there are many more open source licenses which wouldn't have led to the problem described in the article.

simion314 on Sept 9, 2021 [–]

But respect the author decision, maybe the "problem" is what the author desired to happen.

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