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I hate that copyleft licensed software should be viable for companies, but they are often too scared to tap into open source as a mistake they might end up forcing companies to open source everything according to faint hearted busy/lazy legal teams.

At Google I was somehow allowed to use Emacs for development, but new copyleft software was immediately dismissed by legal, even if it's source was not getting into /google3 nor leaving my laptop.



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