Can't disagree with that. Wine vs Cedega are an example of that where the former eventually caught up and turned into something more reliable.
The model might differ for copy left licenses, but nothing really prevents it at the end of the day. I think GCC's arcane code base made the situation worse versus business sense. Otherwise Red Hat or MariaDB would be…
If you have a competitive advantage why contribute back in any meaningful way? We have seen this type of stuff on Android with Dalvik (where Qualcomm has a special library / modified version of the VM). That's not to…
Can't disagree with that. Wine vs Cedega are an example of that where the former eventually caught up and turned into something more reliable.
The model might differ for copy left licenses, but nothing really prevents it at the end of the day. I think GCC's arcane code base made the situation worse versus business sense. Otherwise Red Hat or MariaDB would be…
If you have a competitive advantage why contribute back in any meaningful way? We have seen this type of stuff on Android with Dalvik (where Qualcomm has a special library / modified version of the VM). That's not to…