To people who will pay whatever they think a thing is worth, a free OS is worthless

Aaaaaah right

Sorry I don’t get it. It just felt like a reasonable question to me

This is getting downvoted but honestly, “why?” This is a good question. Too few people understand why GPL licensing is important.

A working “Linux” fork with a “do whatever you want we don’t care” license means that people can just take the code without ever attributing credit or contributing back. They can make their own proprietary kernels from this and dispense from the free and open source part. They would also be free to commercialize the software without restrictions and impunity. As it stands GPL3 in particular is restrictive enough to be considered “bad for business” but it’s also the only license that actually protects free software in court

Get a pixel. They are less expensive, especially at last year’s model. Way less vendor bloat. Easiest device to deGoogle, ironically. I’m running GrapheneOS on a pixel 7 I spent $700 a couple years ago. Get your freedom while you still can

Hell is fine if the alternative is an actual line editor