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Originally posted by prasanta No it is not the same. Licenses does matter.
-Prasanta
Isn't the idea though of Linux, not about freedom of price, but freedom of choice?
If one decides to run proprietary software, this is fine - licenses are irrelevant.
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Only software which uses open source code needs to be open source. Just making calls to the OS isn't enough,... nor are driver modules that don't have hooks into the kernel.
You can (and I do) have commercial software running in Linux...
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